English players

[bluerobert]

Get a grip you Reform voting mongrels

 

[Furey1878]

At the risk of sounding reform-y, I honestly think their should be more of a requirement for club's to field home-grown talent. Would be better for player development and address some of the absurdity around transfer fees.

 

[MikeyMike]

It's a bit mad that mentioning the number of English players in our team is considered "Reform-y".

Is it Reform-y to talk about all the English players in the Arsenal squad - like Eze, Madueke, Saka, Lewis-Skelly, Nwaneri and Nelson?

 

[Marc bolan]

Are you Paul Whitehouse?

Jumpers for goalposts

 

[Jimmy Flangemoth]

This thread has a faint whiff of nationalism, so I've informed PREVENT about it. Expect a door knock from your local constabulary.

 

[Clarky cat]

Are you Paul Whitehouse?

No

 

[Preki]

At the risk of sounding reform-y, I honestly think their should be more of a requirement forld club's to field home-grown talent. Would be better for player development and address some of the absurdity around transfer fees.

They would just sign all the best players at 16.

 

[summerisle]

Need more bald players, sick of the flowing locks that could advertise a shampoo. No inferiority complex here.

 

[argietoffee]

Ad an inmigrantes myself, I think we should send them all back.

Including me.

 

[argietoffee]

Need more bald players, sick of the flowing locks that could advertise a shampoo. No inferiority complex here.

I believe players with bad teeth are intrinsically better footballers. I have a feeling those with a limp are too, I just havent proven it. Yet.

And pur only ginge is JOB.

What is that all about?

 

[Furey1878]

They would just sign all the best players at 16.

They do that now mate, but if there was actually rules in place that meant you couldn't just hoover them up young and send them out to feeder clubs on loan it would address it. Basically if a certain quota of your matchday squad has to be homegrown, then I think it addresses it. As the top club's wouldn't be able to afford having a bunch of teenagers in their matchday squad.

 

[Neiler]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but our starting XI on Sunday had an unusually high number of English players for a top flight game.

Pickford, Garner, Tarkowski, Keane, Iroegbunam, Dewsbury-Hall, and Grealish. Throw in O'Brien from Ireland and its almost like the 80s.

I don't care where our players come from, as long as they give their all, but I can't help liking the proliferation of relatively local players in our set-up. Kind of reminds me of the days before Sky invented football.

Two of those have Irish caps and Dewsbury Hall qualifies also.

 

[Marc bolan]

Need more bald players, sick of the flowing locks that could advertise a shampoo. No inferiority complex here.

Yes I use to use wash & go and sure enough it went

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Ad an inmigrantes myself, I think we should send them all back.

Including me.

The English are also immigrants, they came
from the Schleswig Holstein Peninsula, a region of which is still known as Angeln .
The only people who can claim to be indigenous are the North Welsh , who have the oldest DNA associated with Britain.
In truth however the majority of the country is British ( Celtic) with on average about 25% Germanic DNA.
The nationalistic thing is an artifice , couldn’t care less where the players come from as long as they are good .
( although I do prefer the team to contain some Scousers in it ).

 

[MikeyMike]

Two of those have Irish caps and Dewsbury Hall qualifies also.

But they were all born and raised in England. I mean, most of the England team qualifies to play for other nations, but it doesn't mean they're not English does it?

Just to make it clear, what I said was that seven of the starting XI players were English. I wasn't talking about their parents, or their grandparents, or their skin colour, or whether they stand up for the national anthem or boo it. I wasn't saying they couldn't choose to play for other countries if they were good enough, or that they knew the words to all the Beatles songs, or who they voted for.

Just that we had more English players than most Premier League teams in our starting line up.