It's not attacking someone to call them right wing, it's a descriptive term. But fair enough, I'm sorry. It probably wasn't needed. It wasn't intended as a dig, believe it or not.
The thing is I have opinions on the whole representing the country of your birth thing and I want to talk about it if other people are interested. For a start it's not recent at all, it was just as common in the 30s and 40s as it is now and I think that there's different types of it. I mean if you're english and representing a country like st vincent or ireland because you have an ancestor from there and it's your best chance of international football thats dodgy (a burnley defender once represented jamaica despite not even having a jamaican ancestor hilariously enough.) Simarly the likes of deco or puskas representing a country they moved to for footballing purposes, I don't like that.
But, Anichebe who moved to england at like 1 years of age, if he decided to represent england that would strike me as respectable because we're the country he's spent most of his life, same with podolski and germany (I know there's a basketball player who was taken in as immigrant child and wanted desperately to represent england because he felt he owed this country something in return.) It's like how Terry Butcher was born in singapore but from an english family stationed out there, he's simply not singaporian. Or Van Den Hauwe just wasn't belgium.
I think the much more dodgy thing is players like kanoute who were born and raised in france playing for the countries of their father's birth, to be honest but there you go.
