Jeremy Corbyn and Héctor Bellerín freeze out Piers Morgan in Spanish (twice) Picture the scene: the GQ Awards, where everyone wanted a photo with the leader of the Labour Party and Stormzy […]

Picture the scene: the GQ Awards, where everyone wanted a photo with the leader of the Labour Party and Stormzy called Theresa May a paigon. Piers Morgan, in attendance, is sat on a table with Arsenal player Héctor Bellerín (who, for those not clued up on Premier League player nationalities, is Spanish.)

In an article written for the Daily Mail, Morgan outlines some quick banter between him and Bellerín about the problems with the team. But it is the next paragraph that has been doing the rounds on Twitter since.

https://twitter.com/eojmorris/status/909832938371641350

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A fun anecdote in and of itself, but the figures featured in the story have refused to let it go. Bellerín took to Twitter himself, retweeting the above extract, with the words “come on mate, don’t take it personally @piersmorgan”.

A taster of Corbyn speaking Spanish

Morgan had retweeted the above excerpt, but made no comment (though, in the article, he told a ‘smirking’ Corbyn that ‘you and Wenger are the only losers in football and politics to keep their job’.) Following Bellerín’s tweet he responded in Spanish:

Relaje a mi amigo, hablo el español fluido y entendí cada palabra … ???? https://t.co/MmD9ObDR2Y — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 18, 2017

Translation: “Relax to my friend, I speak fluent Spanish and I understood every word.”

Not to be linguistically outdone, Corbyn responded to Bellerín himself, also in Spanish.

Fue un placer conocerte. Es mejor que no le digamos de lo que estábamos hablando, no lo entendería. Muy buen juego en el partido el domingo. — Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 19, 2017

Translation: “Great to meet you. Let’s not tell him what we talked about, he wouldn’t understand. Well-played in the game on Sunday.”

To which Bellerin has since replied “Muchas gracias señor Corbyn y por supuesto, todo queda entre nosotros! Fue un placer conocerle!” (Thank you very much Mr Corbyn and of course, we’ll keep it between us! It was a pleasure to meet you!)

Piers Morgan, ever speedy in responding to any tweet that mentions him even in passing, also responded to Corbyn.

Creo que #WengerOut es el mismo en ambos idiomas. https://t.co/EJ6gwZ2aOT — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 19, 2017

Translation: “I think #WengerOut is the same in both languages.”

Did you expect to learn this much Spanish today? Not in the slightest. Will Arsenal improve? Debatable. Was this a surprisingly fun Twitter conversation? Seguro.