The one good thing about the transfer window was that were few rumours about Hatem Ben Arfa leaving Newcastle United, even though manager Alan Pardew did personally link him with Everton, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any negative news about the Frenchman, as Mike Ashley’s company got his name wrong!
This may have passed you by due to the hectic nature of the transfer window and the rumours that popped up left, right and centre, or in Newcastle’s case the tumbleweed that went by, but earlier this week the picture above was taken from the Sports Direct website, owned by Mr Ashley himself.
It clearly shows Ben Arfa spelt Ben Afra, which is pretty amateurish to say the least and seeing that Pardew calls him Hatam rather than Hatem, the Frenchman must just wish that someone in the north east could get his name right.
The website has since changed the shirt name to the correct spelling, but no wonder there was up to 30% off at the time, hardly a bargain!
I thought it was only Director of Football Joe Kinnear that couldn’t pronounce names right, but it seems that the disease is spreading…
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” Absolute Disgrace,Newcastle United Hierachy should hang their heads in shame ,with the culprit of these misspellings getting at least 50 lashes “HWTLTTB&Wa,gatsr
Was this a deliberate ploy to sell him ?
Sunday league teams value n look after their players better than NUFC,beyond words,sure MA got bet with equally rich SAFC fan,how would the great Sir Bobby feel about HIS club at the moment?
Another brilliant piece by ace reporter Tom Jones.
I asked 3 Tunisian friends what the ultimate insult to them would be.
All 3 answers involved pig’s genitalia and their mothers.
When I mentioned the mis-spelling of their names by a sports shop lassie
they all looked a bit bemused but smiled politely at the dopy Geordie.
Which part of the ” village of the damned ” do you come from Tom ?
Amazing reporting, can see from the picture that Ben arfas shirts are in kids sizes, hence the lower price. Quit journalism now please, doom-mongering to the nth degree.
Agreed, yes the name is wrong but this ‘journalist’ has conjured an article up within about a second of seeing it, without even looking at the image properly.
Shambles of an article
They were obviously just taking the mickey. Something like that wouldn’t be an error!
The Ultimate Insult is slightly dramatic… I can think of more Insulting Ultimate Insults…
Hatem is pronounced “Hatam” in French!!!
“Hatam” is just Pardew trying to pronounce it like the French, so that’s not really wrong. Kinnear must’ve printed those shirts though!
Well at least they got Kebabs right.
Come on its funny man!, unless you’ve paid £60 for the shirt that is