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Tottenham star Pavlyuchenko: I love life in London despite
my language nightmare
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Roman Pavlyuchenko watches his shot go wide
against Everton on Sunday /www.dailymail.co.uk
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Tottenham star Roman Pavlyuchenko has admitted he loves
life in London despite hardly speaking any English.
The Russian said that he doesn't go out in London, mainly because of his
problems learning the language, and struggles with driving on the left
hand side of the road.
Pavlyuchenko said: 'My only problem in London still remains the language:
I just can't learn it properly.
'I study it five times a week with a teacher but all I can manage so far
is to do some shopping. If people in the street could hear how badly I
spoke, they would probably go mad with laughter.
'That's why I try not to leave home much. I have only dined out in a London
restaurant once.
'To learn driving in London was much easier. But initially driving on
the right hand side scared me; I didn't dare overtake and was constantly
tempted to switch to the other side of the road. Now I can just about
get to the training grounds.
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Roman Pavlyuchenko has said he owes a lot
to Russia coach Guus Hiddink
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Despite the problems, Pavlyuchenko has admitted he is delighted
to be playing in England's top flight.
The striker, who signed from Spartak Moscow in the summer, said 'I'm a
very happy man! Just think: they did not let Andrei Arshavin go, they
do not let Pavel Pogrebnyak go, but I managed to leave.
'At Tottenham they have created perfect conditions for me to play football
and just about the only thing my family is missing in London is as good
a kindergarten for our daughter as we had in Moscow.
'I owe a lot to Guus Hiddink, who did so much for me in the national team.
Everyone says that at Euro 2008 I began playing differently and I also
felt differently, kind of more liberated.
'I heard that they do not pay Hiddink his salary and he
might quit. I'm afraid that if he does the Russian team will never play
again the way we did at the Euro.'
After a difficult start to the season, Tottenham's fortunes
have been turned around since the arrival of Harrry Redknapp in October.
Spurs face Watford in a League Cup quarter-final this week, are almost
certainly through to the last 32 of the UEFA Cup and are out of the relegation
zone in the Premier League.
Dailymail.co.uk,
01st December 2008
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