BUTCHERING THE LANGUAGE
France Football has been amused by the American players’ mangling of the French language.
“Despite incessant efforts to communicate in French, the American players are encountering some difficulty,” it said. “The midfielder Brian Maisonneuve explained his absence from the World Cup qualifying games as a ‘jarret’ fatigue!”
A “jarret,” according to the Larousse French-English/English-French dictionary, is the back of the knee--or in culinary terms, a knuckle of veal.
