Want to Play Soccer in England? Speak English!
All English Premier League players immigrating from outside England must speak “basic-user standard” English, as covered in a new points-based immigration system for all migrant workers undertaken by Great Britain yesterday. Concerns about foreign labor taking jobs from the English have spurred the immigration rules changes.
Incoming workers must be able to express themselves in The Queen’s English “using familiar everyday expressions, and be able to discuss basic personal details”. We hope, for the sake of the players, they will be able to argue that the expressions should be job-specific. That will allow the migrant footballers to get by with such common phrases as:
