Andrew Bolt says that England is where “the English used to live”, based on one observer’s comments about a cricket match.
Changing Britain. David Lloyd on the England-India game at the ICC World Twenty20:
India have more supporters here at Lords…
Of course, it’s inconceivable that an English citizen — one of “the English” — who originally hails from India might barrack for India. It’s not like an Australian would barrack for the team of his parents’ homeland.
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Damn RobJ. You follow CHELSKI?? And I was beginning to like you…
…(joke)
Maybe I shouldn’t have been so serious. *blush*
My Footb……soccer team is Chelsea
(runs and looks up chelsea FC on wiki)
smartarse!
“My Footb……soccer team is Chelsea”
Uh oh — the Russians are coming….
Hi Confessions,
Happily we were pretty good in the mid-60’s through to the early 70’s when my uncle started taking me to games too
Hello Surly,
Bolt does have a Dutch passport, I can recall someone mentioning it when he was going on about the Australian government bringing dual citizens out of Lebanon when the last Israeli / Hisbollah conflict was happening — he said something about getting it so he could work in Holland I believe.
I have a French one as well as my Australian one.
Oi you lot, I was barracking for Chelsea way back to 1970, I wonder if Abramovich had even heard of them! I doubt it very much.
Chelsea were the first team to field an entire team in the premiership with no British or Irish players in the starting line up, they get criticised for this, I think it’s something to be proud of. I mean nobody worries that no Chelsea Players are from Chelsea, why should they care if they’re from the Ivory Coast, it’s all about football, the spectacle.
(5 of them are actually from london – I wonder if Man Utd can make a similar claim?)
Hello Rob,
I can’t help but feel that English soccer clubs have gone overboard with recruiting foreign players – (the same can probably be said for County cricket sides) – I know it’s good for the crowds watching from week to week to see some of the best players in the world competing in the home and away season, but I fear it hasn’t helped with the development or performance of the English national team.
“I know it’s good for the crowds watching from week to week to see some of the best players in the world competing in the home and away season,”
Exactly
“but I fear it hasn’t helped with the development or performance of the English national team.”
Who cares
Besides, it’s helped the development of the Soceroos, Viduka, Cahil, Kewel, Schwarzer. In the lower divisions Sascha Ilic.
“Who cares ”
Good point
And yes, those guys certainly did do well from their time in England.
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