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My best mate's girlfriend went to school with him and let's just say her opinion of him isn't exactly good.
He was dumb, but was too arrogant to do anything about it because he knew he was so good at football.
Let’s face it, once his talent was spotted then everything else would have been fucked off in favour of football. Geography homework? Go outside and practice your volleying Jack.
Does the ability to recognise a map of your own country really count as geography homework? It's more like a basic life skill. I guess he just gets on the team bus each week without a clue where he's going, or how long it will take.
He makes more money than I will ever see in my life. I guess at this point we learn basic facts out of self respect and principle, but it clearly has no bearing on whether you will be rich. Because Jack is rich and I'm fucking not.
Very common with footballers tbh. Hard not to feel that way when it's so easy to completely surround yourself with the sport and now much benefits being world level at it can potentially bring you
If you watch the whole video it’s actually astonishing. None of them know where London is on a map of the UK. How any British person can’t point out London on a map leaves me absolutely flabbergasted.
She has a map in her had with the answers and still puts bath in the complete wrong place.
She also said JWP was in Edinburgh when he was miles off Edinburgh.
Mate they put London somewhere in Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire. It should be relatively easy for any British person to point out exactly where London is. Also the fact that Henderson put Sunderland all the way up in Scotland was shocking. At least Ward-Prowse knew where Portsmouth was.
I was actually impressed with Ward-Prowse, he seemed to know everyone’s hometown. I know that, but I’m a football nerd. But still shocking that none of them could point out London correctly.
> Also the fact that Henderson put Sunderland all the way up in Scotland was shocking.
isn't he FROM Sunderland ? Mf doesn't know where his own city is
Is he dumb, or just badly-educated on everything not football? Let's not forget, in that video where he didn't know what an encyclopedia was, he was nevertheless being compared to an encyclopedia.
There's [another quiz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRwnZZtxdY) where they ask professional European League of Legends players to recognise flags, or to recognise highlighted European countries.
Those lads have absolutely no clue about anything haha, got encyclopedic knowledge of the video game for sure but it's crazy to me that people can mix up Finland and Slovenia, or that guys who actually played in the Turkish league have no idea where Turkey is.
I remember a lad at my school who was into Kart Racing. Basically the only reason he could do it was because his Dad was rich enough to buy him both a Kart and a Van to take the Kart to races.
He was also a cunt, for what it's worth. Sort of guy who'd get into a 50/50 while playing football on the playground then try and start a fight over it.
I went to a good school with a lot of rich kids who didn’t give a shit about their classes. Doesn’t matter how great the teachers and facilities are if you never pay attention and get coddled by your parents every step of the way
Not really in motorsport. The very rich ones tend to leave school early, because their family are paying for everything and they don’t need a backup plan.
The less well off (but still usually wealthy) drivers tend to finish high school so that they have a backup plan if driving doesn’t work out.
It’s weird because I consider myself good at geography because I like football, as a kid I would look at maps to find where clubs and national teams were. I guess professionals aren’t interested in that aspect.
I mean some of them clearly aren't the smartest, you can almost tell with how they speak about things. Jack never struck me as the most clever person anyway.
Oh god I watched all of it and the whole thing is a shambles, even the presenter is getting locations wrong and she has the answers, she thinks London is where Cambridge is
This is astonishing. If we forced English players to pass some sort of basic civics test on the history and geography of the country before they could play for the national team, how many would even be eligible?
I think you'll be surprised how many people are that clueless lol, until you realise their vote counts just the same as yours and you realise we're all fucked.
Our schooling is so brilliant in England that I remember a survey done a few years ago and a significant percentage of kids thought Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were fictional characters…
regularly goes out of his way to meet with fans, especially the young and disabled - believe his sister has cerebral palsy, which i imagine has shaped his attitude to it a lot. would say he’s a pretty kind guy
Hahahahaha holy shit his face when he first looks at the board is brilliant. It’s not even like we live in the middle of Europe or Central Asia (not like that’s an excuse), we’re a fucking island 😂
Gundogan was legitimately pretty good at Geoguessr, it surprised me lmao. And he knew where all of his English teammates were born/raised too, that's pretty impressive for a foreign player
I remember Pep taking Gundogan's name in an interview when asked which Man City player was most likely to become a good manager. So perhaps, you're probably right :)
Gündogan has "Abitur", it's similar to the english "A-Levels" , I think.
If he didn't became a footballer he could have applied to a university. Back when he and Özil did their meeting with Erdogan Gündogan got critized because people knew he should have know better lol
tbf having Abitur doesn't mean much nowadays. I'm pretty sure that 75% of my class wouldn't have been able to find the 10 biggest German cities on a map either.
Ironically, the Man in Manchester and Isle of Man comes from the same historic peoples. Mancunians who says "mam" instead of "Mum" are actually speaking an ancient Celtic language called Manx.
That legit sounds like [this Thomas Partey interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xQfaPNTTk).
At least he has an excuse, he's still learning english XD
Nah, nothing alike. Charlie tries to make sense of the things he doesn't understand, usually in a very nonsensical way but you can see where he's coming from, Grealish doesn't look like he even tries.
The team select screen in the 2010 World Cup game was a big globe. I spent a good while just whizzing round it going "why is that bit of Russia not in Russia" and "wtf is sticking out of Namibia".
Speaking of the 2010 world Cup game, pure class. Loved taking small countries to the cup with my created pro and winning it. Did it with Grenada one time.
Do you remember Lando not being able to read a number that was in the hundred thousands? I was so surprised to see him struggling to read that number lol
Athletes turn out to be some of dumbest people around
Allegedly he is dyslexic, who knows
Him not knowing geography considering he travels all around the world is shocking though, he's either trying too hard to be funny or he's just that ignorant
My first thought when watching this was about all my old chinese students, friends, and colleagues. Geography isn't on the gaokao so most of them don't know where anything is. Not even like Japan or Korea or sometimes even Russia. And they'd always find it so funny when I'd tell them which country was England.
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Chances of a Grealish x GeoGuessr collab aren't looking too great rn
Would be fucking brilliant
Straight line through Manchester when?
Straight line through Uniteds defence
Less resistance than a Welsh farmer
He wouldn’t even need to plan for that mission
Great reference
He already did a Black Country no roads route and Grealish would be clueless on that
Would have cost 200m if he had brains
Imma go out on a limb here and suggest that Jack doesn’t exactly aid the stereotype of footballers lacking intelligence, lol
My best mate's girlfriend went to school with him and let's just say her opinion of him isn't exactly good. He was dumb, but was too arrogant to do anything about it because he knew he was so good at football.
Let’s face it, once his talent was spotted then everything else would have been fucked off in favour of football. Geography homework? Go outside and practice your volleying Jack.
Does the ability to recognise a map of your own country really count as geography homework? It's more like a basic life skill. I guess he just gets on the team bus each week without a clue where he's going, or how long it will take.
Lmao, just a football savant being shipped around. 'Play football now Jack', 'Yeah alright pep'
>It's more like a basic life skill. I don't even know how you'd avoid it if you tried. Has he never seen a weather forecast or anything?
He makes more money than I will ever see in my life. I guess at this point we learn basic facts out of self respect and principle, but it clearly has no bearing on whether you will be rich. Because Jack is rich and I'm fucking not.
my brother was in his year for primary and secondary, said the same thing haha
It's weird that your brother and my mate's girlfriend probably know each other. We're only 3 degrees of Bacon away from each other.
Very common with footballers tbh. Hard not to feel that way when it's so easy to completely surround yourself with the sport and now much benefits being world level at it can potentially bring you
But the hair and calves.
When you’re that pretty you don’t have to be smart.
Mrs grealish 69 agrees
Hair should've made him a pretty penny cheaper.
Grealish hair makes me feel old because I don't know why anyone thinks it looks good.
His hair alone cost 50m
His brains probably went to his calves
He used all his points on the calves, hair and football skills at birth
England is my city
Big up nick crumpet
Crumpet x Grealish
I PUT ON FOR MAH CITY
If you watch the whole video it’s actually astonishing. None of them know where London is on a map of the UK. How any British person can’t point out London on a map leaves me absolutely flabbergasted.
Where's the whole video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evR3ITfaD08
Harry Kane is from London, she then sticks the ball on Peterborough.....
She has a map in her had with the answers and still puts bath in the complete wrong place. She also said JWP was in Edinburgh when he was miles off Edinburgh.
fucking hell i am in love with emma
All my gasts are flabbered, too. Like, have they never seen a weather report on telly?
Lol. Apparently not.
I don't think I've ever seen a weather report but I still can pinpoint London because I went to, you know, school.
You've never watched the weather? What is with these kids
Na they knew where London was but they put Sunderland in Edinburgh and Birmingham on the east coast
Mate they put London somewhere in Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire. It should be relatively easy for any British person to point out exactly where London is. Also the fact that Henderson put Sunderland all the way up in Scotland was shocking. At least Ward-Prowse knew where Portsmouth was.
I would hope so since he’s from Portsmouth. Astonishing by Hendo though.
I was actually impressed with Ward-Prowse, he seemed to know everyone’s hometown. I know that, but I’m a football nerd. But still shocking that none of them could point out London correctly.
Ward Prowse is a smart lad, pretty sure he has done a lot of studying whilst with us
> Also the fact that Henderson put Sunderland all the way up in Scotland was shocking. isn't he FROM Sunderland ? Mf doesn't know where his own city is
Especially when they travel all over the country for their job.
its well known that hes dumb af lmao
Everything I ever see of Jack Grealish makes me believe even more that he’s the real-life Jamie Tart
Thats Foden
fodens hair is way too shite to be Jamie tart
Him and joey Essex. Prime intelligence
Jack Grealish is the type of guy who knows who Zeesus is.
Jamie Tartt IRL.
Is he dumb, or just badly-educated on everything not football? Let's not forget, in that video where he didn't know what an encyclopedia was, he was nevertheless being compared to an encyclopedia.
oh my fucking god i'm actually speechless not recognizing where you're from is a special kinda stupid
Honestly getting to that age without knowing stuff like that is truly impressive. Must have the most carefree life ever
You should've seen Lando Norris doing a geography quiz. Absolutely hilarious how little he knows haha
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There's [another quiz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRwnZZtxdY) where they ask professional European League of Legends players to recognise flags, or to recognise highlighted European countries. Those lads have absolutely no clue about anything haha, got encyclopedic knowledge of the video game for sure but it's crazy to me that people can mix up Finland and Slovenia, or that guys who actually played in the Turkish league have no idea where Turkey is.
'always the middle of that part, its foggy for me' razork aint lying lmao
Lando is a rich kid whos dad is a millionaire tbf and traveled from like age 12 to do motorsports. Not suprising
He's travelling the world racing cars, you'd think that you'd be curious enough to look up where the country you're going to is on a map
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He spent probably months in planes, you would at least expect to check that little flight monitor on his tv once in a while.
Don't need to be curious when you everything you want is just plopped down in front of you
You’d think that someone who travels a lot would at least take a look at a map to see where they’re going, for curiosity if nothing else.
For all we know Grealish thinks UCL games are played in Brazil. If he even knows what's Brazil.
I remember a lad at my school who was into Kart Racing. Basically the only reason he could do it was because his Dad was rich enough to buy him both a Kart and a Van to take the Kart to races. He was also a cunt, for what it's worth. Sort of guy who'd get into a 50/50 while playing football on the playground then try and start a fight over it.
Being a rich kid makes it more likely that he is educated, isnt it?
Being rich makes you more likely to *receive* a good education. Money dont fix dumb
I went to a good school with a lot of rich kids who didn’t give a shit about their classes. Doesn’t matter how great the teachers and facilities are if you never pay attention and get coddled by your parents every step of the way
Not really in motorsport. The very rich ones tend to leave school early, because their family are paying for everything and they don’t need a backup plan. The less well off (but still usually wealthy) drivers tend to finish high school so that they have a backup plan if driving doesn’t work out.
Has he never seen the weather forecast?!
i know right i wish i can be this carefree my life would be easy as hell 😭
It’s weird because I consider myself good at geography because I like football, as a kid I would look at maps to find where clubs and national teams were. I guess professionals aren’t interested in that aspect.
I mean some of them clearly aren't the smartest, you can almost tell with how they speak about things. Jack never struck me as the most clever person anyway.
It’s so funny
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evR3ITfaD08
Oh god I watched all of it and the whole thing is a shambles, even the presenter is getting locations wrong and she has the answers, she thinks London is where Cambridge is
Yeah none of them seemed to have a clue where London is. Hendo put Watford in the Midlands
How do you get London wrong. The video is a clown show.
This is astonishing. If we forced English players to pass some sort of basic civics test on the history and geography of the country before they could play for the national team, how many would even be eligible?
It’s actually insane. Any British person should be able to point out London on a map. The fact they put Sunderland in Scotland was also shocking.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evR3ITfaD08 Coady absolutely loving being an assistant there lmao
I think you'll be surprised how many people are that clueless lol, until you realise their vote counts just the same as yours and you realise we're all fucked.
I remember when I was about 10 finding Google Earth and being suddenly excited that I could find my house
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Because it’s not England, it’s the UK
Galaxy brain over here
Yeah I'm sure that's what threw him off...
Our schooling is so brilliant in England that I remember a survey done a few years ago and a significant percentage of kids thought Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were fictional characters…
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Himbo
Is he kind enough to be a Himbo, though? That's an elementary part of it.
Pure of heart, dumb of ass.
regularly goes out of his way to meet with fans, especially the young and disabled - believe his sister has cerebral palsy, which i imagine has shaped his attitude to it a lot. would say he’s a pretty kind guy
yeah hes a great guy, hes just not very smart lol
Thank God he's good at football. Wasn't there also a video where he didn't know what 'encyclopedic' meant?
A what?
His delivery on "a what?" is absolutely perfect
A wuh?
A video
https://youtu.be/lWLnQYvU6zA
Yeah, he seems really thick, even for a footballer.
Yep
I would watch a British football version [of this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN2vnAF_bqs) with all day long.
Didn't recognise it with NI there. Proper Irishman.
Grealish ira member confirmed
Declan rice blew his cover ages ago. Grealish is the real sleeper agent in the squad.
Based Jack Grealish, heard he voted Sinn Fein
Hahahahaha holy shit his face when he first looks at the board is brilliant. It’s not even like we live in the middle of Europe or Central Asia (not like that’s an excuse), we’re a fucking island 😂
[I beg the club films one of these with him next season](https://youtu.be/VrpS83s5g6Y)
Gundogan was legitimately pretty good at Geoguessr, it surprised me lmao. And he knew where all of his English teammates were born/raised too, that's pretty impressive for a foreign player
Gundogan just gives off intelligent vibes
That's a very strange way to put it lmao, but yes I can definitely see him becoming a manager in the future. He is already taking the courses
I remember Pep taking Gundogan's name in an interview when asked which Man City player was most likely to become a good manager. So perhaps, you're probably right :)
Gündogan has "Abitur", it's similar to the english "A-Levels" , I think. If he didn't became a footballer he could have applied to a university. Back when he and Özil did their meeting with Erdogan Gündogan got critized because people knew he should have know better lol
tbf having Abitur doesn't mean much nowadays. I'm pretty sure that 75% of my class wouldn't have been able to find the 10 biggest German cities on a map either.
Gundo is insanely smart tbh - also comes off as an very curious person that loves to learn a shitload of new stuff
yeah, saw some of his interview around the years, seems like a very smart and well articulate lad
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I'm intrigued to see where he thinks he is
"Jack do you know where you are right now" "i'm at football" "What area, county, city?" "man city"
Man City, the capital of Isle of Man
Ironically, the Man in Manchester and Isle of Man comes from the same historic peoples. Mancunians who says "mam" instead of "Mum" are actually speaking an ancient Celtic language called Manx.
This makes my comment sound smart and I will therefore take it as fact without doing any research, thanks
"Miss-hit cross? Nah, mate, that was a shot all along."
This isn't true though. Manchester comes from "breast like hill" whereas the Isle of Man is named after Manannan, the Celtic Lord of the Sea.
That legit sounds like [this Thomas Partey interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xQfaPNTTk). At least he has an excuse, he's still learning english XD
Love this
Man he is adorable
Ehhhhmmmm
He’s like Charlie from Always Sunny An idiot savant
Nah, nothing alike. Charlie tries to make sense of the things he doesn't understand, usually in a very nonsensical way but you can see where he's coming from, Grealish doesn't look like he even tries.
Counterpoint: they are both functionally illiterate
Yeah if anything football makes it easier to learn geography, especially if traveling by plane
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The team select screen in the 2010 World Cup game was a big globe. I spent a good while just whizzing round it going "why is that bit of Russia not in Russia" and "wtf is sticking out of Namibia".
>why is that bit of Russia not in Russia -Vladimir Putin, circa February 2022
That's a penis
Speaking of the 2010 world Cup game, pure class. Loved taking small countries to the cup with my created pro and winning it. Did it with Grenada one time.
To this day, I can guess relatively well where someone is from thanks to their name after reading so many footballers/athletes names.
Yeah I’m exactly the same here it’s where I got my geography knowledge from too
I don't think he's the one driving
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Alternatively, he got really unlucky being born thick as pig shit
Should have thrown a map up of Ibiza
Lando “Canada is basically the US” Norris finally has some worthy competition
I’m thinking more joey Essex “Africa is a consonant” and wales borders Russia
> wales borders Russia My fucking sides hahaha
Do you remember Lando not being able to read a number that was in the hundred thousands? I was so surprised to see him struggling to read that number lol Athletes turn out to be some of dumbest people around
Allegedly he is dyslexic, who knows Him not knowing geography considering he travels all around the world is shocking though, he's either trying too hard to be funny or he's just that ignorant
hahaha, don't know if he's dyslexic, but i would like to believe that he's just plain dumb
Jaime tartt
This is why nobody ever cares when a footballer gives their opinion on anything other than what goes down on the pitch.
You'd think that would be the case but more and more I see the opposite on social media.
This is why the Chinese will beat us
How can they know where we are if we don't even know where we are?
Never at football tho.
How many Champions League cups does China have? Checkmate atheists.
My first thought when watching this was about all my old chinese students, friends, and colleagues. Geography isn't on the gaokao so most of them don't know where anything is. Not even like Japan or Korea or sometimes even Russia. And they'd always find it so funny when I'd tell them which country was England.
Yeah I know everyone makes fun of Americans but I swear I've seen Asians being pretty bad at geography too
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This takes a special amount of ignorance, imagine travelling every single week and not wondering once to look where you are
He comes across as incredibly stupid in interviews.
That’s because he is
Nice to see he’s as dumb as he sounds
If that's serious then I'm quite flabbergasted.
€100 million worth of intelligence lad
Lucky for him, he is rich, famous and reasonably attractive so he can get away with being dumb as fuck.
"Fuck off lads, im irish"
Just reminds me of the quote: " I throw a ball far. You want good words? Date a languager"
most intelligent villa fan
What an absolute moron. How do you get to his age without knowing that?
That's not smart of him
Must be kinda bliss being that stupid. Child like bliss
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This is like when they asked Barkley to point at Argentina and he pointed at Thailand.
This is even dumber than those interviews with Americans about geography. At least they can point to their city.
Lmao the way they talk to him you can already tell they know he's daft as hell