*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

[Tom Halsey]

Yeah this argument about Giggs and Fletcher is a bit nonsensical, however the main point still stands IMO.

 

[roseboy64]

Ok well ignoring O' Shea Man Utd is more British than Arsenal. Even in terms of managers that's the case. There's nothing wrong with having foreigners but since it's the English Premeir League you'd like to see at least a couple Englishmen being really involved and not just being squad players.

 

[Matteh]

Hell, no. On both counts.

EDIT: Well, actually, no, it is technically part of the British Isles, but not of Great Britain.

As i understood it the technicalities are:
England = England
Britain = England + Wales
Great Britain = England + Wales + Scotland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland = England + Wales + Scotland + NI

The Irish Irish think of themselves as Irish funnily enough.

 

[Matteh]

Ok well ignoring O' Shea Man Utd is more British than Arsenal. Even in terms of managers that's the case. There's nothing wrong with having foreigners but since it's the English Premeir League you'd like to see at least a couple Englishmen being really involved and not just being squad players.

Last thing i'd want to see is a quota system limiting the number of foreigners, because they have played a major influence in changing the English game to a much more watchable one.

Maybe the reason it happens is there just simply isn't enough top level English players?

 

[superkingdave]

As i understood it the technicalities are:
England = England
Britain = England + Wales
Great Britain = England + Wales + Scotland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland = England + Wales + Scotland + NI

The Irish Irish think of themselves as Irish funnily enough.

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets. The term British Isles is often misunderstood, and is sometimes considered controversial. The term is less common in Ireland than in Great Britain.

 

[roseboy64]

Last thing i'd want to see is a quota system limiting the number of foreigners, because they have played a major influence in changing the English game to a much more watchable one.

Maybe the reason it happens is there just simply isn't enough top level English players?

Why then do all the top teams have at least one influential English player?BTW I wasn't advocating for a quota system but some level of balance is required.

 

[Craig]

Last thing i'd want to see is a quota system limiting the number of foreigners, because they have played a major influence in changing the English game to a much more watchable one.

Maybe the reason it happens is there just simply isn't enough top level English players?

If the FA put in a quota system wouldn't the clubs just run straight to the European Union the second it is announced?

The same thing applies about Bolton and really up this year Portsmouth who were signing foreingers just for the sake of it (and frankly some of them weren't anything great and I'm looking at the goalkeepers first of all).

 

[aussie]

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets.

ah i see we know our Geography well..

 

[sledger]

ah i see we know our Geography well..

seeing as you are under the illusion that you are from australia, evidently you don't.

 

[sledger]

Why then do all the top teams have at least one influential English player?BTW I wasn't advocating for a quota system but some level of balance is required.

Arsenal don't have one influential english player, to suggest that Theo Walcott or Justin Hoyte are a huge influence on the Arsenal side is rather naive.

 

[Matteh]

seeing as you are under the illusion that you are from australia, evidently you don't.

Feel the burn.

 

[Matteh]

Why then do all the top teams have at least one influential English player?BTW I wasn't advocating for a quota system but some level of balance is required.

Out of 11 players on the team maybe 1-3 are top English players, which is only a quarter of the team.

Would you rather play the likes of Drogba, Crespo, Hasselbaink or the mighty Carlton Cole? (example is a couple years old, but was an instance of an English player not being up to the class to break through)

 

[sledger]

Henry, Bergkamp, Wiltord, Reyes or Francis Jeffers is another.

 

[roseboy64]

Arsenal don't have one influential english player, to suggest that Theo Walcott or Justin Hoyte are a huge influence on the Arsenal side is rather naive.

I said top teams. Where does Arsenal fit into that?

 

[roseboy64]

Out of 11 players on the team maybe 1-3 are top English players, which is only a quarter of the team.

Would you rather play the likes of Drogba, Crespo, Hasselbaink or the mighty Carlton Cole? (example is a couple years old, but was an instance of an English player not being up to the class to break through)

Crespo. That's beside the point though because Chelsea have Terry and Lampard. I'm sure you would rather have Terry in defence than Boulharouz if you were a Chelsea fan.

 

[roseboy64]

Henry, Bergkamp, Wiltord, Reyes or Francis Jeffers is another.

Reyes and Jeffers are in the same category for me. Saying that I'd take Henry.

 

[aussie]

seeing as you are under the illusion that you are from australia, evidently you don't.

haha this is all so funny i must say..

welcome back Jackass, you are one bored ass fool. Can't you find anything better to do that pick on a bloke on a internet forum. Geez your *** life must be crap..

 

[Craig]

Scathing comeback.

 

[aussie]

rumors are that Baines could be off the Arsenal in January. Would be a good move, would like to see him in a top club.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I said top teams. Where does Arsenal fit into that?

Won a Premiership more recently than certain Manchester-based franchises one could name.