seagulls4ever
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- Oct 2, 2003
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There are no English players starting tonight in the English Premier League match between Portsmouth and Arsenal, the first time this has happened. It's not right.
Is neither O'Hara for Portsmouth or Walcott for Arsenal playing.
What about Hughes of Pompey is he English
... the first time this has happened.
Didn't Liverpool have a team that had no Englishmen in it?
That was in a cup match, could have even been the final. Arsenal have played a few league games without any English players but not sure their opponents have. The most likely would be Chelsea with Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole and John Terry out as Joe Cole has been out for ages.
and an Aussie...rather than a team of players from outside the EU.
Yeah it was a final, 1985 FA Cup final I think but I could be wrong. Out of the starting eleven none were Engish, however the substitute, only one in those days, was English (Paul Walsh). And whilst you're right, that the 'foreigners' in those days were mainly Scots, Welsh and Irish they still were denying places to Englishmen, and it's the lack of Englishmen in the Premier League which is what the thread starter was moaning about.I think you might be right, but the side still had plenty of Welsh, Scottish and Irish players in it...plus a Dane and an Aussie...rather than a team of players from outside the EU.
Yeah it was a final, 1985 FA Cup final I think but I could be wrong. Out of the starting eleven none were Engish, however the substitute, only one in those days, was English (Paul Walsh). And whilst you're right, that the 'foreigners' in those days were mainly Scots, Welsh and Irish they still were denying places to Englishmen, and it's the lack of Englishmen in the Premier League which is what the thread starter was moaning about.
I think you might be right, but the side still had plenty of Welsh, Scottish and Irish players in it...plus a Dane and an Aussie...rather than a team of players from outside the EU.