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THe headline on the news came on. The announcer just said 'after jack wilshere said that England players should be English'.

I lold. The whole thing is ridiculous. Of course he's right. If there is heritage. Then that should also be allowed. But what he was getting at was that a Bosnian Albanian Belgian who has livedd here for 5 years shouldn't be able to play for England. Oh no he a raziiizzztttt!
 
Tubey said:
Why?

The players are representing England, not necessarily English by birth.

It's exactly the same as saying a Cockney cannot sign for a Scouse club because he wasn't born here - it'd be ridiculous.

EDIT: Oh wait, COMPLETELY misread what you said hahaha!
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I'm honestly surprised you could post something as stupid as the above.

Nobody is saying you have to be English by birth, but the idea of a kid with Albanian/Serbian parents who has lived the majority of his life in Belgium playing for England because he's lived here for a few years is mad.
 
I know big Jack explioted the grandparents rule for us, but i always felt the players that declared fckn jumped on it because they knew they were never going to get a look in the England set up... Just sorry a young Rooney was,nt around at the time.


Zola Budd.
 
If you come to England as a minor, with your parents or as an orphan for instance, and feel like you are English and belong to the country then I have no problem with that person representing England.
If you're brought over as a youth player for a domestic club, you're not moving to the country for the right reasons, it's purely business so representing that country is weird.
Then if you come over as an adult a la Arteta then you shouldn't even consider changing allegiance for your own country.
 
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England are so rubbish we should take anyone we can get. However I do feel you should have to be descended from the country in question, not just living here for a few years.
 

I dont agree with the whole somones gran once visited a country stayed there for a bit so their gran child can represent that country- like Ireland did that year when they got to the world cup and it was basically an England B team.

But if someone legitimately gets nationality by living in the country then yeh they should have the same rights to represent that country as anyone else.
 

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