I think that most people I speak to about football don't know that Villas-Boas is pronounced like that, so they probably think I'm having shum short of Shteve McClaren-Shtyle weird accent episode when I say it.
I'm still not a fan of it being abbreviated. The only people who can get away with using their initials as their name are JR, PT, R2-D2, and Mr T.
Agree with the OP and it shows a lack of respect and laziness for me, but we are living in the text and twitter age where everything is shortened.
Personally I don't use AVB - I may have a few times in the past but not anymore. I never used the abbreviations VDV and BMJ either, these are footballers and managers not buzzwords or units of measurement.
Would also mean we shouldnt shorten other players names, as above BAE, Hudd, Verts, Sig, Ade..... e.c.t.
but i dont agree with the first post so i will keep shortening the names.
It wasn't an attack on supporters. It was an attack on the media.
It's an abbreviation that is linked to failure and is often mocked by many journalists.
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It wasn't an attack on supporters. It was an attack on the media.
It's an abbreviation that is linked to failure and is often mocked by many journalists.
Its van der Vaart.bored are we ?
compare that to the amount of times I have said Van Der Vaart