If only the English mattered

tsubaki · May 23, 2014

Didnt they have a "not English but Scouse" banner a while back?

Eggs · May 23, 2014

...stats, stats and damn lies. Make of them whatever you want.

Allezfan · May 23, 2014

What the hell do you mean if?

SerenityNigh · May 23, 2014

League table: excluding wins by non-English managers

League table: excluding saves by non-English keepers

League table: excluding clubs that cut circle patterns on their pitch

League table: by club support by Page 3 girl

League table: by Piers Morgan tweets

Then add all these up, using a fancy algorithm with a barely identifiable programming flaw that favors the highest bidder, and there's your new table. Sorted.

ste d' indica · May 23, 2014

Moomin said:
If the team with the most celeb nobheads as supporters won the league, Libpewl fussball cult would walk it.

I've defo been less keen on that new James Bond fella since that 'Spewing Liverpool' documentary.

bluemangroup · May 23, 2014

Allezfan said:
What the hell do you mean if?

Get back to Costa Rica you foreign devil. It's England or nothing here.

witchdoc187 · May 23, 2014

it is complete and utter nonsense.

Jayhow15 · May 23, 2014

Hate stats of this ilk. Absolutely pointless. Might as well do a survey of if only goals scored with right foot if you wear adidas count - just as relevant !

Omarza · May 23, 2014

RaleighBlue said:
It's also inaccurate. Has us with 19 goals scored by Englishmen - I count 17.
Ross - 6
Bainesy - 5
Barry - 3
Osman - 3

Think they incorrectly took goals in all competitions...which should bring it to 19...
Ross - 7
Bainesy - 6
Barry - 3
Osman - 3

Rupert's Tower · May 23, 2014

Layne said:
It's so UKIP. Why not include the home nations? It's not like the English league was solely English players before the influx of foreigners with the Premiership

Because the so called home nations have their own leagues, the Premier League is the English Premier League, not the British Premier League. The day it ever becomes the British Premier League will be the day Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland will have to merge into one international football team

Groucho · May 23, 2014

Was gearing up to enforce the 'no politics' rule.....

Seriously, this seem to me to be no better than one of RAWK's alternative league tables. Moved to World Football.

EvertonAmerican · May 23, 2014

Skeleton Crew said:
"Goalscorer is far from everything"... Except the scoreline which is what the piece is calculating and what determines the winning team.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that a quality keeper affects the scoreline just a tad.

Neiler · May 23, 2014

Who cares seriously!

Globalisation is the future, international football will be dead or significantly diluted over the next 20 years!

peteblue · May 23, 2014

This was in the paper the other week, complete crap. It dismisses foreign players scores BUT does no calculation for their potential English replacement. Therefore any team with more English players is immediately put into an advantage. It is, without doubt the most ridiculous piece of Kopite style propaganda ever......pillocks.......