[Football] Only two English players start

[ringmerseagulltoo]

Maybe I can't count but I think there were only two English players in our starting line up yesterday plus Duffy as an honorary Brit. I fully understand why, and I applaud both our foreign players and Club recruitment, but is this good for English football? We have to do it to survive in this division and enforcing a limit on import numbers would inevitably raise the price of HGPs, so what is the solution?

 

[knocky1]

The Championship.

 

[British Bulldog]

The solution is support your club and the players and forget the rest.

 

[Questions]

When our top League was 90 per cent English our national team was still shit bar the odd blip.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Shane Duffy is surely British anyway?

 

[studio150]

Shane Duffy is surely British anyway?

How can he be British given he wasn't born in Britain

 

[studio150]

Maybe I can't count but I think there were only two English players in our starting line up yesterday plus Duffy as an honorary Brit. I fully understand why, and I applaud both our foreign players and Club recruitment, but is this good for English football? We have to do it to survive in this division and enforcing a limit on import numbers would inevitably raise the price of HGPs, so what is the solution?

If you want lower quality football impose a limit. The solution is for English players to get better.

 

[Stat Brother]

I think you'll find there was only one Englishman and a Northerner.

 

[BensGrandad]

Maybe I can't count but I think there were only two English players in our starting line up yesterday plus Duffy as an honorary Brit. I fully understand why, and I applaud both our foreign players and Club recruitment, but is this good for English football? We have to do it to survive in this division and enforcing a limit on import numbers would inevitably raise the price of HGPs, so what is the solution?

Didnt Scotland try this and it made their national team worse that it already was.

 

[LowKarate]

Maybe I can't count but I think there were only two English players in our starting line up yesterday plus Duffy as an honorary Brit. I fully understand why, and I applaud both our foreign players and Club recruitment, but is this good for English football? We have to do it to survive in this division and enforcing a limit on import numbers would inevitably raise the price of HGPs, so what is the solution?

I don't necessarily see it as a problem. It is great to see decent players from any nation playing in the blue and white.

If we are to see more British players in our team and in the Premier League generally, then the youth players need to work a lot harder and coaches need to focus on technique more than physical power. Then we will have more quality players to choose from.

 

[Brighton Mod]

How can he be British given he wasn't born in Britain

Was he not born in Northern Ireland?

 

[Winker]

I think back to the days of Dean Wilkins at Withdean when half our starting team came from the DS squad and were local(ish). We used to laugh at teams like Chelsea and Arsenal which were full of foreigners. How times change!

 

[Hampster Gull]

I thought the current ethos was British jobs for British people or something like that

 

[Saunders]

How can he be British given he wasn't born in Britain

He was born in Northern Ireland which is in Britain he switched to play for the Republic so cant talk as to how he feels for his nationality but he qualifys for a British passport and an Irish one.

 

[goldstone]

Maybe I can't count but I think there were only two English players in our starting line up yesterday plus Duffy as an honorary Brit. I fully understand why, and I applaud both our foreign players and Club recruitment, but is this good for English football? We have to do it to survive in this division and enforcing a limit on import numbers would inevitably raise the price of HGPs, so what is the solution?

Great shame, and very very bad for English football. The whole system is flawed.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He was born in Northern Ireland which is in Britain he switched to play for the Republic so cant talk as to how he feels for his nationality but he qualifys for a British passport and an Irish one.

He played for NI U21s but switched to Ireland for the senior squad. He was born in (London)Derry so considers himself Irish, but geographically, he is British.

We had two youth academy English players on the pitch at one time, & if Stephens was fit, he would be a third English player.

 

[Saunders]

He played for NI U21s but switched to Ireland for the senior squad. He was born in (London)Derry so considers himself Irish, but geographically, he is British.

Yes I know as I said he switched to Ireland. You are just repeating what I said about his choice of nationality as he qualifys for both.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

How can he be British given he wasn't born in Britain

Was he not born in Northern Ireland?

Exactly.

 

[studio150]

Was he not born in Northern Ireland?

He was born in Northern Ireland which is in Britain he switched to play for the Republic so cant talk as to how he feels for his nationality but he qualifys for a British passport and an Irish one.

Exactly.

Northern Ireland is not part of Britain

Its the United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland

 

[Saunders]

Northern Ireland is not part of Britain

Its the United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland

They can hold a British passport and are called British not UKish