世界盃紀念品鬧烏龍 奧巴馬變英格蘭隊球員
A hilarious blunder at a company producing World Cup merchandise has seen Barack Obama mistaken for defender Chris Smalling on a set of mugs.
近日，一家世界盃商品公司推出一套馬克杯，誤將奧巴馬的頭像印在三獅後衛克里斯·斯莫林的杯子上，烏龍設計令人捧腹。The U.S. President is pictured wearing the England football top after a junior member of staff was tasked with finding royalty free images of the squad.
在發行的馬克杯圖像中，美國總統奧巴馬身穿斯莫林的12號球衣。之所以出現這種失誤，是因爲公司安排了一名初級員工在網上搜索英格蘭球員的免費照片。The head and shoulders photo printed on the mugs show Obama wearing the kit, with the caption Chris Smalling World Cup squad Brazil 2014 beneath it.
奧巴馬頭部及肩部的照片被印在了馬克杯上，照片中，他身穿英格蘭球衣，下方文字標明：“2014年巴西世界盃英格蘭隊克里斯·斯莫林。
The merchandise company which made the error has now hastily turned to Dorset-based expert clearance resellers Wholesale Clearance UK to try and shift the stock that could have easily appeared in an Only Fools and Horses episode.
日前，該公司已緊急聯繫位於多賽特的清倉處理商Wholesale Clearance來處理這批蠢的足以上《只有蠢人和馬》連續劇的貨物。Wholesale Clearance managing director Karl Baxter said the company contacted him with the hope of off-loading the stock.
Wholesale Clearance的總經理卡爾·巴克斯特告訴記者，該公司曾和他聯繫，希望把這些商品下架。Mr Baxter said he believed a junior member of staff at the Dorset company responsible could be facing demotion after being trusted with the task of sourcing royalty free pictures of each England player to use on the mugs.
巴克斯特先生說，他認爲這名負責搜索英格蘭球員免費照片以印在馬克杯上的初級員工可能會被降職。They passed this onto to their young, bright eyed and bushy tailed new apprentice. The designs were proofed and signed off by their boss, who had clearly had a heavy night with the lads playing poker and before he'd had his first vat of coffee the following morning.
“他們把這個任務交給了一個年輕而積極的新手。”他說，“而且公司老闆還簽字通過了這款產品的設計，顯然，這位老闆前一天晚上肯定和夥伴們通宵打撲克了，而且在第二天早上簽字之前肯定還沒喝咖啡。”They immediately contacted us and 2,000 of the England items were dispatched to our warehouse. We eagerly unpacked them and, indeed it turned out that the Chris Smalling cup had Barack Obam’s head on instead of Chris’s.
“他們立即通知了我們，2000件商品運到了我們的倉庫。我們馬上打開查看，發現斯莫林的杯子上印的是奧巴馬的頭像。”
