Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

[Nine while nine]

Fantastic write up from an Empoli fan.

I'm intrigued as to why an Italian would have Florence in his user name when Italians don't call Florence 'Florence', but 'Firenze'.

It's almost as if someone looked up the English Wiki page for Empoli FC, noted the words '... based in Empoli, Metropolitan City of Florence. Founded in 1920...' and thought 'that's a sound basis for a username' and went from there, completely neglecting the fact that Empoli would see Florence's football team - Fiorentina - as rivals.

But surely no-one goes around pretending to be Italian in order to seek to fool other posters? I mean, that would be a Krule thing to do...

 

[mil1lion]

I prefer a keeper to push the ball out to a dangerous area than not make the save or push into his own net which is what Lloris has started to do.

 

[Tucker]

It looks like Romario has just moved to Reddit with his in-depth Italian/spurs analysis.

That 100% reads like it was written by Romario…

Yeah I’m calling bullshit. “Excuse my English” and then writes perfectly worded and punctuated sentences and even uses English footballing colloquialisms like “for me.” This is 99% not an Italian Empoli fan.

 

[Powder Keg]

Yeah I’m calling bullshit. “Excuse my English” and then writes perfectly worded and punctuated sentences and even uses English footballing colloquialisms like “for me.” This is 99% not an Italian Empoli fan.

It was the use of “Ange” that got me

 

[yido-1989]

What kind of fan watches Premier league fans?

I meant games
Was working at the time so bit of a rushed message.

Btw we have a thread that does exactly that

What Our Opponents' Fans Are Saying About Us 22/23

Let's see how long this lasts until it's a 'What we are saying about What Our Opponents' Fans Are Saying About Us"...

spurscommunity.co.uk

 

[mark87]

 

[TheChosenOne]

Unless they drag it out to 1st July for whatever reasons Levy has up his girdle

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

that would be a Krule thing to do...

Perfect callback

 

[chas vs dave]

Only 3 more tweets until the medical

 

[Tucker]

Only 3 more tweets until the medical

Lol I know right. Pretty sure he tweeted he’d be having the medical on Saturday last week.

 

[JW72]

It was the use of “Ange” that got me

This. The rather overplayed explanation/justification for using Reddit already seemed an odd way to begin. The use of “Ange” rather than Postecoglu, the very specific knowledge of his tactical approach and some other turns of phrase make the whole thing a bit suspicious…

 

[TheChosenOne]

This. The rather overplayed explanation/justification for using Reddit already seemed an odd way to begin. The use of “Ange” rather than Postecoglu, the very specific knowledge of his tactical approach and some other turns of phrase make the whole thing a bit suspicious…

Someone who thinks they are clever but really quite stupid and it shows.

 

[ssamme]

Apparently failed his medical, the doc’s were concerned that he had balance issues caused by his ears….

 

[barry]

Fantastic write up from an Empoli fan.

It's quite sad that one fool has scarred the community so much that some can't take supposedly innocent articles at face value. I get it, but fuck Romario, I'm going to believe it. Vicario will be Godly

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

I'm intrigued as to why an Italian would have Florence in his user name when Italians don't call Florence 'Florence', but 'Firenze'.

It's almost as if someone looked up the English Wiki page for Empoli FC, noted the words '... based in Empoli, Metropolitan City of Florence. Founded in 1920...' and thought 'that's a sound basis for a username' and went from there, completely neglecting the fact that Empoli would see Florence's football team - Fiorentina - as rivals.

But surely no-one goes around pretending to be Italian in order to seek to fool other posters? I mean, that would be a Krule thing to do...

It could be someone called Florence who was born in 1920...and at the grand old age of 103 decided that she ought to finally give Reddit a go....

 

[Timberwolf]

It's quite sad that one fool has scarred the community so much that some can't take supposedly innocent articles at face value. I get it, but fuck Romario, I'm going to believe it. Vicario will be Godly

Tbh I don't think we're being paranoid here - it's very clearly some sad chancer given the username, colloquial English, new account, etc. You don't get random fans of mid-table Italian teams posting on subreddits in perfect 'football English' and knowing we call our manager 'Ange' - it's fanciful at best.

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's actually Krule himself again given he's a Spurs fan and clearly got the horn for this kind of thing. I'm fairly sure he had another account pretending to be a Georgian guy when we were linked to Kvaratskelia (apologised for English and pretended to type badly before writing perfect English within like 3 posts) which also conveniently disappeared the minute Romario got busted.

People on the internet are weird, man.

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

Apparently failed his medical, the doc’s were concerned that he had balance issues caused by his ears….

Can he get through doors with those babies?

 

[Timberwolf]

I'm also leaning towards it being fake but the text reminds me a lot of something translated using ChatGPT, fwiw.

Hmm maybe, but the way it's structured and lots of little turns of phrase like 'for me' don't strike me as AI, or even a translation tool.

The phrasing would be much more clumsy if it was Google Translate, and the structure would be totally different if it was ChatGPT.

 

[littlewilly]

Can he get through doors with those babies?

Personally and, of course, in my opinion, not impressed with "humour" about the way people look.

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

Personally and, of course, in my opinion, not impressed with "humour" about the way people look.

I too have big ears so joke isn't lost on me