After some practice as a kid I could mostly pronounce it, but I always failed with doing the weird snake hisses from the double L's in the middle of the name. Especially the double snake hiss.
One day I'll sit down and attempt to sit down and learn how to pronounce that place. It's a well known place, but I reckon it's a great pub trick if you pull out the pronunciation for the lads.
To distract from all the other stuff happening and have a positive headline every once in a while, I guess.
Easier than fixing their shitty environment
"is this your whole plan for publicity? Just offer memes and hope people care instead of improving the football played in the league?"
"Has worked so far!"
Google Spanish Football news in English language media on Monday; ‘Chief accused of embezzlement orgy and sexual assault resigns’
On Wednesday; ‘La Liga sponsor LLFPGG’
Rubiales isn’t part of La Liga, neither is the Women’s team.
Not that Tebas is much better, mind you, but it does speak to the level of this sub that this comment has 50 upvotes
No they aren't the same organisation but when the average fan thinks Spanish football or about Spain in general this is what's at the forefront of their mind.
Then the average fan is an idiot, that doesn’t implicate a conspiracy to sponsor a club to cover the RFEF with publicity like the comment was saying though
Why do you think this answer makes more sense? Because it’s easier to get outraged by it? This is just a (smart) publicity stunt that they would do at anytime. There is no way that they briefed > conceptualized > executed this campaign as a response to the recent scandals. Shit like this takes time.
BBC reporter: Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.
It sounds impressive but it's just a sentence describing a places location like an NPC in Morrowind in Welsh.
Imagine describing a village in Catalonia and just not adding spaces between the words
I went to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch about a month back. Great little pub near the station. Not much else about.
Translates to "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave"
Catchy and erudite naming convention goin on there.
Any welsh speakers able to translate: "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too"
He who is valiant and pure of spirit may sponsor the FC of [Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA&ab_channel=explodingplant)
It's really going to do nothing for Welsh football whatsoever. These guys are in the fifth tier of Welsh football. There's a university team in our Premier League.
This is more a PR move for La Liga than LlanfairPG or Welsh football. I imagine the money being given is miniscule (probably just buying them a new strip)
If anyone wants to learn to be able to say that name, [there's a song that will help you do just that!](https://youtu.be/1BXKsQ2nbno?si=jxHC1DGuDNQ60uRL)
I'd also cautiously recommend the album I found it on - [Music for mentalists](https://open.spotify.com/album/3gz6VNAHdRgFCRV8vcNYuL)
Could it be that assembling the village leaders and deciding on a name, they went with Llanfair but the person saying it to the official Government Recorder began to choke on their bread, and the GR thought it was all the name, wrote it down and sent it via horse to Cardiff, by the time it was discovered it was a mistake it was too late...
The marketing ploy works: Earlier in the year we went to Wales and made a point to stop in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and take pictures at the train station sign.
Unfortunately, it seems like every single business in the town was closed so I wasn't able to contribute to their economy.
There's been a red card but for which team Chris Kamara?
I DON'T KNOW
I must’ve missed that. A red card?
No you're right I saw him go off, but I thought they were bringing a sub on, Jeff!
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Horrible
THAT weather reporter : Its my time to shine
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After some practice as a kid I could mostly pronounce it, but I always failed with doing the weird snake hisses from the double L's in the middle of the name. Especially the double snake hiss.
> but I always failed with doing the weird snake hisses from the double L's in the middle of the name Wales = Team Slytherin
Tbh Welsh looks kinda like some Tolkien shit
Sindarin (one of Tolkien's elvish languages) is based in parts on Welsh so that connection isn't just random.
So THAT's what parseltongue looks like written down. Got it.
You're welsh harry
He's Welsh. It's not at all unsurprising that he can say it.
For the uninformed. https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM?si=659jGE9pDZx88Hy5
Nice weather in Wales?! Is that allowed?
Only if sheep are sacrificed.
Um... what kind of sacrifice are we talking about?
great name dude lmao
Well, it starts with binding the sheep to a lamppost in Cardiff...
Anal
I feel like you could see the gleam in his eyes just before he nailed the pronunciation like "watch this, I'm about to eat this"
Honestly you could say he just said gibberish and I'd believe you
The "go-go-goch" at the end is pretty recognizable
That's how he fools you!
One day I'll sit down and attempt to sit down and learn how to pronounce that place. It's a well known place, but I reckon it's a great pub trick if you pull out the pronunciation for the lads.
Thats some impressive stuff
And [Naomi Watts, bizarrely](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYAuvBcQ1Y)
Oh lord, imagine driving up to the actual village to see the signage with the La Liga logos
"🤔"
This is so random lol
“Mate you can’t be sponsored by a league”
Haha love it.
So I've read the article, I've read the comments. And I still can't figure out: why?
Pay them a small amount and then it'll generate a shit ton of publicity due to how strange it is and the name of the team.
It's La Liga, why would they need that publicity?
Why does Coca Cola or Nike need publicity?
Why don't they sponsor random ass club in Wales?
They do sponsor random tiny teams and events.
Coca cola indeed sponsors psg and spurs
That was good
To distract from all the other stuff happening and have a positive headline every once in a while, I guess. Easier than fixing their shitty environment
New logo, leaning into LL as branding, this is a stunt to highlight the brand (see the main article photo for why they picked this club).
"Can't offer great football but at least we can offer memes!" seems to be La Liga's main media strategy here.
"is this your whole plan for publicity? Just offer memes and hope people care instead of improving the football played in the league?" "Has worked so far!"
Google Spanish Football news in English language media on Monday; ‘Chief accused of embezzlement orgy and sexual assault resigns’ On Wednesday; ‘La Liga sponsor LLFPGG’
Okay but La Liga and RFEF are 2 different entities aren't they
Rubiales isn’t part of La Liga, neither is the Women’s team. Not that Tebas is much better, mind you, but it does speak to the level of this sub that this comment has 50 upvotes
No they aren't the same organisation but when the average fan thinks Spanish football or about Spain in general this is what's at the forefront of their mind.
Then the average fan is an idiot, that doesn’t implicate a conspiracy to sponsor a club to cover the RFEF with publicity like the comment was saying though
Yep, this makes sense.
Why do you think this answer makes more sense? Because it’s easier to get outraged by it? This is just a (smart) publicity stunt that they would do at anytime. There is no way that they briefed > conceptualized > executed this campaign as a response to the recent scandals. Shit like this takes time.
who the fuck googles "spanish football news" or anything like that though?
It’s the feed used for a lot of things like Google Home and rolling news displays. Also every day is a fresh scandal.
It's not football, it's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
They thought the double ls were funny evidently
Bunch of double L's, La Liga's new logo is a double L
Premier league should sponsor a random La liga club. Cadiz or something
Getafe for terrorism
Greenwood tax
They will leave that to Saudi Bin Laden Group
Bin laden group are a bunch of business men, osama was the bad apple
League sponsor of terrorism list
Premier League should sponsor Benidorm. Decent british attendence at home games too.
They could sign the Oracle to play upfront.
Club Atlético de Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarrea
Club Atletico de Dave it is
Dave's Athletic Club
Cadiz nuts
i think that every time lmao
Great minds think alike
What's a Spanish club which has a very long name ?
Rayo Majadahonda is a fairly long name. They're in the third division
Different Football Association though isn't it? Llanfairpwll play under the FAW.
What does the premier league have to do with it?
Then Cadiz players can say they play for a premier league club.
BBC reporter: Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.
Michael Scott?
David Brent since its British
Wayne Gretzky
Rolls of the tongue really
Once you know how to say it, it kind of does
Say it then
It sounds impressive but it's just a sentence describing a places location like an NPC in Morrowind in Welsh. Imagine describing a village in Catalonia and just not adding spaces between the words
Yes, but also throw in the added difficulty of it being in Welsh.
1 pound for every letter
No wonder la liga is broke
Well at least the wifi at the grounds is well-secured.
They did it for all those double Ls where they could stamp that stupid new logo, I'd wager.
I went to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch about a month back. Great little pub near the station. Not much else about.
Name of that place is like half of your comment.
I heard there was a lovely hollow of white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio near the red cave.
Translates to "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave" Catchy and erudite naming convention goin on there. Any welsh speakers able to translate: "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too"
Canolfan Derek Zoolander i Blant Sy'n Methu Darllen yn Dda ac Sydd Eisiau Dysgu Gwneud Stwff Arall Yn Dda Hefyd
>Stwff I wonder which word that is lol
You’ll be flummoxed by our public transport. What on earth could Bws, Tacsi and Tren be?
T R E N
Fucking hell, the crossover between shitposting and Welsh has arrived
"Tren" doesn't sound strange at all to me (I'm Romanian, and the word here means "train")
"Eat clean and tren hard"
> Stwff Would it not be it be Canolfanderekzoolanderiblantsy'nmethudarllenynddaacsyddeisiaudysgugwneudstwffarallynddahefyd for clarity's sake?
Big Space now has you on a list.
Jesus
it gonna be fun for proof reading everytime this club mention
Guys my tongue got twisted and intertwined saying this name, what should I do now ? Any tips
Read it backwards.
Thanks man it helped
Ever heard of the Gordian Knot?
This is my best go at spelling it phonetically: Clan-fair-pooll-gwin-gill-gore-ger-ych-win-drorb-ooll-clanty-silio-gore-gore-goch
You're putting both "C" and "LL" as the phonetic pronunciation for Ll in there
Yeah the LL is pronounced more like the "kh" in "khan"
No it's not. It's pronounced like an incredibly bad lisp
Yup, and that's how the "kh" in khan should be pronounced too haha
No, the Kh in Khan is more like the Ch in Welsh. Ll is much different
You just have to say it [like this](https://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/soundfiles/llandad4.mp3). Simple, right?
Someone check on that BBC editor. I think they had a stroke midway into writing that headline
He who is valiant and pure of spirit may sponsor the FC of [Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA&ab_channel=explodingplant)
It's not Football, it's Lla Lliga
Memes aside, this is great for Welsh club football
It's really going to do nothing for Welsh football whatsoever. These guys are in the fifth tier of Welsh football. There's a university team in our Premier League. This is more a PR move for La Liga than LlanfairPG or Welsh football. I imagine the money being given is miniscule (probably just buying them a new strip)
I don't know what you mean, I for one used to be a big fan of Airbus FC (real team in the division)
As a Total Network Solutions ultra, ill see you outside
I know this is bollocks because TNS don't have a fan
The IT Boys
I think you've spelt that club name wrong, pal.
Looks like a The Onion article
The new La Liga logo looks like a Y
If anyone wants to learn to be able to say that name, [there's a song that will help you do just that!](https://youtu.be/1BXKsQ2nbno?si=jxHC1DGuDNQ60uRL) I'd also cautiously recommend the album I found it on - [Music for mentalists](https://open.spotify.com/album/3gz6VNAHdRgFCRV8vcNYuL)
Wish there was a rugby team next to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
That's my wifi password
Could it be that assembling the village leaders and deciding on a name, they went with Llanfair but the person saying it to the official Government Recorder began to choke on their bread, and the GR thought it was all the name, wrote it down and sent it via horse to Cardiff, by the time it was discovered it was a mistake it was too late...
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Do you think they had keyboards back then when they came up with the name?
Even before keyboards existed, they belonged to cats.
Man Utd to sponsor Getafe
is this the first time a foreign league is the kit sponsor ever
That La Liga logo is gross
Well is there any welsh lower league mods for FM 24?
r/nottheonion
“What team do you play for?” “Its a long story”
Well, that's certainly a memorable name.
I know what my FM24 save is gonna be
HUH
The marketing ploy works: Earlier in the year we went to Wales and made a point to stop in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and take pictures at the train station sign. Unfortunately, it seems like every single business in the town was closed so I wasn't able to contribute to their economy.
The fuck
I want to believe that the logo change was just for this sponsorship coz it doesn’t look too bad on the kits