Brexit has made England team better!

[Thunder Bolt]

I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid.

You could apply the same formula to almost any UK work place and you would be down to a tiny fraction.

What point is it trying to demonstrate here? All of our players are English - and yes, most of the British population has at least on parents or grandparent born overseas?

Sshh whisper it quietly, but our highest scorer was born in Jamaica.

 

[zefarelly]

I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid.

You could apply the same formula to almost any UK work place and you would be down to a tiny fraction.

What point is it trying to demonstrate here? All of our players are English - and yes, most of the British population has at least on parents or grandparent born overseas?

No you wouldn't and no they don't.

 

[portslade seagull]

Sshh whisper it quietly, but our highest scorer was born in Jamaica.

Also our athletics teams, we'd have hardly anyone left. Mind you some of them would be through parentage so they would have the choice of who to represent

 

[Eeyore]

Sshh whisper it quietly, but our highest scorer was born in Jamaica.

Our back three are from South Yorkshire

 

[Eeyore]

That doesn't mean he isn't English. He is English.

For some that depends on how well he plays.

 

[Blackadder]

Regarding fan travel Just had a look on the UK and Irish Govt sites.

Entry to Italy from the UK (Non EU)

From 21 June to 30 July, on arrival in Italy travellers who have been in the UK in the previous 14 days must self-isolate for 5 days, at the end of which they must take a rapid antigenic or molecular swab test for COVID-19 and test negative for release.

People travelling to Italy from Ireland: (EU)

are not required to self-isolate upon arrival
must fill out an EU Digital Passenger Locator Form which can be found here. If they are unable to fill out this form online, a Self-Declaration must be printed and completed. This Self-Declaration can be found here.
must prove that they have undergone a molecular or antigen test within 48 hours prior to their arrival in Italy, carried out by means of a swab, with a negative result.

So maybe Brexit has made a difference?

 

[Pevenseagull]

England only ever won the world cup under a Labour government.


Next ...

Edit, men's senior football world cup.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Our back three are from South Yorkshire

My husband likes this.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I feel the real proof would be should we win the thing, then the theory is indisputable.

 

[zefarelly]

Regarding fan travel Just had a look on the UK and Irish Govt sites.

Entry to Italy from the UK (Non EU)

From 21 June to 30 July, on arrival in Italy travellers who have been in the UK in the previous 14 days must self-isolate for 5 days, at the end of which they must take a rapid antigenic or molecular swab test for COVID-19 and test negative for release.

People travelling to Italy from Ireland: (EU)

are not required to self-isolate upon arrival
must fill out an EU Digital Passenger Locator Form which can be found here. If they are unable to fill out this form online, a Self-Declaration must be printed and completed. This Self-Declaration can be found here.
must prove that they have undergone a molecular or antigen test within 48 hours prior to their arrival in Italy, carried out by means of a swab, with a negative result.

So maybe Brexit has made a difference?

flights to Dublin going to be busy the next few days . . . Dublin to Rome is going to be popular.

 

[portslade seagull]

Think they might cotton onto that

 

[zefarelly]

Source?

Would be interesting to see statistics on this. 1 in 3 children born in the UK have at least one foreign born parent. Assuming this trend has been going on for multiple generations, then a majority of people in the UK have at least one foreign born grandparent. Keep going through the generations and increasingly we are all children of immigrants.

that may be the case last year, its been a shifting tide for 50 years, a tide that's turned. its a very complex issue. certainly marriage for passports has been a thing in recent years. .and different countries have different criteria.

 

[Billy the Fish]

So it may just have been a wind-up

This is where the analysis should end. It's a bit of a joke, have a chuckle and move on.

Just glancing at the rest of the thread and there actually people still spoiling for an argument FFS!

 

[Berty23]

It will be interesting to see what the long term effect will be given that British clubs won’t be able to sign so many young Europeans. This will mean more British kids will be kept in academies for longer which could

A) make England stronger because more late bloomers will stay in the system
B) make England weaker because the standard in age groups will drop which means we won’t develop so many exceptional players.

Take your pick which suits your bias and argue away!

 

[seaford]

Colin from Portsmouth thinks so:

https://twitter.com/Exploding_Heads/status/1410179384607117316

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Regarding fan travel Just had a look on the UK and Irish Govt sites.

Entry to Italy from the UK (Non EU)

From 21 June to 30 July, on arrival in Italy travellers who have been in the UK in the previous 14 days must self-isolate for 5 days, at the end of which they must take a rapid antigenic or molecular swab test for COVID-19 and test negative for release.

People travelling to Italy from Ireland: (EU)

are not required to self-isolate upon arrival
must fill out an EU Digital Passenger Locator Form which can be found here. If they are unable to fill out this form online, a Self-Declaration must be printed and completed. This Self-Declaration can be found here.
must prove that they have undergone a molecular or antigen test within 48 hours prior to their arrival in Italy, carried out by means of a swab, with a negative result.

So maybe Brexit has made a difference?

flights to Dublin going to be busy the next few days . . . Dublin to Rome is going to be popular.

Flying to Ireland, to fly on to Rome would be entirely pointless.

This parts still applies, regardless of what route you take, or what country you arrive from:

on arrival in Italy travellers who have been in the UK in the previous 14 days must self-isolate



So, arriving via Dublin is pointless, unless they plan to lie about where they've been previously - which make no sense, because if they are going to flout whatever rules are in place, they could just fly direct from London, and go ahead and break the rules

 

[Boys 9d]

Has Brexit made the Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh teams better ?

 

[The Optimist]

Seems to me the only "benefit" is that some idiots booed the German Anthem.

England fans have always booed the opposing team's national anthem for as long as I can remember. This isn't knew or linked to Brexit.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Booooooooooo

 

[FatSuperman]

too many people unable to distinguish the difference between correlation and causation.

quaaaackkkkkk let's do thisssssss