Even British people can’t understand Wayne Rooney’s accent

Wayne Rooney’s accent had Brits calling for BBC to use subtitles.

England isn’t a big country, but it has a whole bunch of diverse accents. Manchester United star and English national team captain Wayne Rooney is from a town called Croxteth (good luck pronouncing that) and has a “Scouse accent,” which is native to northwest England, and Liverpool in particular. It’s apparently quite difficult for other Brits to understand. 

The BBC aired a documentary on Monday night called Wayne Rooney: The Man Behind the Goals, and viewers were left pleading for the broadcaster to turn on the subtitles.

• Children can’t be bothered to play football, just Whip and Nae Nae

Need flipping subtitles for this, can barely understand a word #ManBehindTheGoals #Rooney

— MaK-GPT (@makbadat) October 5, 2015

Bloody enjoyed the Rooney documentary. Spent the full hour translating his Scouse tongue to my mother, but It was worthwhile. #WhatDidHeSay?

— Andy Storey (@ATStorey) October 5, 2015

Great documentary on Wayne Rooney on BBC1, completely in scouse, I can't understand a dickie-bird

— dave trott (@davetrott) October 5, 2015

Watching Rooney's docu and literally dont understand half of the Scouse accent

— Niels (@nielsiedotbe) October 5, 2015

The Rooney documentary is great but so hard to watch because the Scouse accent is awful

— Amy Hill (@amyhill__x) October 5, 2015

At times during that documentary Wayne Rooney went so scouse I couldn't understand a word he said #Rooneythemanbehindthegoals #calmdown

— Tom Minney (@minney_88) October 5, 2015

Rooney is my favourite united player ever, but dunno if I can hack these scouse accents lmao

— Kaitavender (@KaiTavender) October 5, 2015

Still trying to find the subtitles button on the remote so I can watch the Wayne Rooney documentary.

— Nick Roberts (@RidgewaySaddler) October 5, 2015

Is there subtitles available for the Rooney documentary? @BBCSport
Haven't a clue what they are saying!

— Conor Pitts (@CPittsie) October 5, 2015

Enjoyed Rooney doc on BBC last night, despite missing out on some of the dialogue as subtitles weren't working

— desod (@desodr1) October 6, 2015

Jeez, you’d think he was speaking another language. 

- Dan Gartland

[​h/t The Daily Mail]