Exactly. If Pards was constantly fucking it up in interviews or in training then I'm sure HBA would have said something.
Type in "Reportage Hatem Ben Arfa Stade 2 29-01-12" on Youtube. Not that it really matters. Not exactly a "Charles Insomnia" moment
Yeah, most likely that there's more than one way to pronounce it. That or Hatem takes pity on Pards' inability to work around the cockney accent.
Think he'd be perfect on the left in our 4-3-3, can't remember who said it but someone said he's basically HBA. Ba can do well there, but we need more than just him for the whole season.
Looking through his website just now, I noticed that he has Pards and Hughton down as two of the "greatest people I met in the world of football"
http://www.hatem-benarfa.com/index.php/article/2/time-goes-by-but-people-do-not-get-forgotten