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Plus: a manager of the month winner sacked eight days later, short managerial handovers and remembering Striker DykerMail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“Have any players or team names ever been refused to be broadcast in another country as it would translate to an obscenity or offensive term?” writes Andy Brook. “If so, how did they get around it?”We haven’t found examples of hardline bans on names being broadcast, but commentators have certainly chosen to be creative with their pronunciations of particular names on occasion. Mike McCarthy kicks things off with a familiar foe. “For much of his career, Stefan Kuntz wasn’t a problem for TV stations in the UK because he played mostly in the Bundesliga at a time (the 80s and 90s) when those matches weren’t shown on British TV. However, when he was selected for Germany’s Euro 96 squad, those matches were very much being shown in the UK. I seem to recall commentators plumped for referring to him as Stefan Kunz – strategically leaving out the ‘T’.” Continue reading...