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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Or somehow making those overpaid nancy boys pay a lot of their wages to charity. Expect to see David Beckham do that when he is in LA, donate a % of his wages and claim as a tax write-off.

Come on, say what you like about the bloke, but he can certainly afford the best accountants in town who know all the loopholes. It's like what happened with the Asian Tsunami, now correct me if I am wrong, but did any high profile footballer donate a month or two of his wages or a good portion to the relief fund?
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Craig said:
Or somehow making those overpaid nancy boys pay a lot of their wages to charity. Expect to see David Beckham do that when he is in LA, donate a % of his wages and claim as a tax write-off.

Come on, say what you like about the bloke, but he can certainly afford the best accountants in town who know all the loopholes. It's like what happened with the Asian Tsunami, now correct me if I am wrong, but did any high profile footballer donate a month or two of his wages or a good portion to the relief fund?
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How would anyone know if they did or not? They'd only know if the footballers did it publicly to some degree.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Matteh said:
The Northern Irish are the ones who wanted to stay a part of Britain, so they probably wouldn't be all that fussed.
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It isn't part of Britain though :p

Watched the Cricket tbh, didn't bother with the footy. fed up with the game anyway now that our season's over. The thing is, the manager's ****, the players are ****, the media's full of ****, and most of the fans are ****s. A logical conclusion is that we'd have a **** team. This is a dark age for our national side.
 
marc71178

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Craig said:
Or somehow making those overpaid nancy boys pay a lot of their wages to charity. Expect to see David Beckham do that when he is in LA, donate a % of his wages and claim as a tax write-off.

Come on, say what you like about the bloke, but he can certainly afford the best accountants in town who know all the loopholes. It's like what happened with the Asian Tsunami, now correct me if I am wrong, but did any high profile footballer donate a month or two of his wages or a good portion to the relief fund?
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A lot of footballers actually do a lot of charitable things - but they don't publicise it at all.
 
Barney Rubble

Barney Rubble

International Coach
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Watched the Cricket tbh, didn't bother with the footy. fed up with the game anyway now that our season's over. The thing is, the manager's ****, the players are ****, the media's full of ****, and most of the fans are ****s. A logical conclusion is that we'd have a **** team. This is a dark age for our national side.
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Very well said, TBH.


As regards that article from the People, it's no wonder they're the least credible newspaper in the country with crap like that. You don't prove that you're not an overpaid, pampered loser just by saying so, Rio. You prove it by winning football matches, something England are comprehensively failing to do at the moment. Hate that guy.
 
James

James

Cricket Web Owner
I really don't understand why the manger always gets the blame. The English team is obviously just not good enough period.

Matteh said:
Neither's Scotland tbh, the term 'Britain' means just England and Wales. :sleep:
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The word Britain is used to refer to* the United Kingdom (UK) the island of Great Britain which consists of England, Scotland and Wales* sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britian
 
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Matteh

Matteh

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
James said:
I really don't understand why the manger always gets the blame. The English team is obviously just not good enough period.



The word Britain is used to refer to* the United Kingdom (UK) the island of Great Britain which consists of England, Scotland and Wales* sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britian
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From what i read in a dictionary, Britain is England and Wales, Great Britain is England, Wales, Scotland and The United Kingdom of Great Britain is where Northern Ireland gets involved.

It could be the world's worst dictionary but it's still more of a credible source than Wikipedia. God forbid if you say you quoted wikipedia in a Uni essay, you'll get the whole credible source argument from them over and over.
 
James

James

Cricket Web Owner
Matteh said:
From what i read in a dictionary, Britain is England and Wales, Great Britain is England, Wales, Scotland and The United Kingdom of Great Britain is where Northern Ireland gets involved.

It could be the world's worst dictionary but it's still more of a credible source than Wikipedia. God forbid if you say you quoted wikipedia in a Uni essay, you'll get the whole credible source argument from them over and over.
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Haha, fair point re Wikipedia. I just thought when I read your post, that it did include Scotland, which prompted the google search.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Britain is just an informal term for Great Britain though, as far as I know. England and Wales together pretty much exists as a geographical entity called "England and Wales." I'll look this up a bit more actually, because I'm not prepared to discount what Matteh said.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Question: I have been thinking about it for a while, and whilst a lot of footballers have dual nationality's (ie your average member of the Brazilian or Argentine team, or a lot of the French team who have links to Africa and French terriority's), if say a Argentine player who had no EU passport (or any non EU player just using Argentina as an example) was capped for his country, and was playing in Italy or Spain and took out citzenship, if they renounced their Argentine (or insert other non EU country) citzenship would they be able to play for Italy or Spain?
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Craig said:
Question: I have been thinking about it for a while, and whilst a lot of footballers have dual nationality's (ie your average member of the Brazilian or Argentine team, or a lot of the French team who have links to Africa and French terriority's), if say a Argentine player who had no EU passport (or any non EU player just using Argentina as an example) was capped for his country, and was playing in Italy or Spain and took out citzenship, if they renounced their Argentine (or insert other non EU country) citzenship would they be able to play for Italy or Spain?
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AFAIK, once you've played a competitive game for a country, you can't play for another. Exceptions are obviously the likes of Kanchelskis, who played for about seventeen countries. Used to be able to though, I think Puskas did,
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Craig said:
Question: I have been thinking about it for a while, and whilst a lot of footballers have dual nationality's (ie your average member of the Brazilian or Argentine team, or a lot of the French team who have links to Africa and French terriority's), if say a Argentine player who had no EU passport (or any non EU player just using Argentina as an example) was capped for his country, and was playing in Italy or Spain and took out citzenship, if they renounced their Argentine (or insert other non EU country) citzenship would they be able to play for Italy or Spain?
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No (simply if Lionel Messi wanted to represent Spain he could not regardless of his Spanish passport) but if you read pages 60 and 61 of the FIFA rules and regulations (PDF file in the link below) they will elucidate far more coherently why that is the case.

Rory Fallon is currently one player who is caught in such international limbo due to his former allegiances to the England under 21 side, Fallon wants utilise his New Zealand passport and play for All Whites. Tim Cahill was another player who was in such limbo for a time but he was fortunate to correspond with FIFA’s twelve month waiving in 2004.

The anomaly to the ruling however is the forming of new states...
Any player who fit’s the criteria of Montenegrin citizenship (for example), birth in Montenegro, immediate family born in Montenegro or has lived in Montenegro continuously for any five-year period can switch allegiances from Serbia to the newly created state. AS Roma’s Mirko Vučinić is the most notable of players who subsequently has chosen to play for Montenegro instead of Serbia even with the fact that Mirko has already represented Serbia in the past.


http://www.fifa.com/documents/static/regulations/statutes_08_2006_en.pdf
 
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grecian

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Total joke of a performance so far, making Saturdays display look like Brazil '70:laugh:
 
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