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Dont know if this has previously been mentioned, but our starting 11 was made in Britain yesterday. That surely must be a rarity in the Premier League?

Surely someone has a stat on it?

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Numbers used are the players starting 11

Man Utd - 6 british

Man City - 4 

Chelsea - 4

Newcastle - 4

Stoke City - 9

Everton - 7

Aston Villa - 9

Liverpool - 5

Wolves - 9

QPR - 8

Spurs - 5

Sunderland - 6

Norwich - All Eleven! 

Swansea - 8

Wigan - 3

Blackburn - 3

Arsenal - 1 Aaron Ramsey

Fulham - 6

Bolton - 6

West Brom - 7

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There was something on during the Arse or Norwich game which profiled a team saying back in blah blah they were the last Prem team to field a total English team.Can''t remember what team it was though !

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There was a feature on John Gregory during the live stream of the Bolton match yesterday and it mentioned that the last time an all English team was picked in the Premiership was an Aston Villa side in February 1999.

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Thats an excellent stat!

Surely looking at Arsenal with 1 there are communication errors? If you were to work with people of different languages there must be mistakes had all the time!

Not saying its the only reason - but must contribute!

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Peter Grant was British, but nobody could understand him. So being british isn''t everything.

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[quote user="Canary_on_the Trent"]I haven''t got the time to check but do your stats include ROI or NI players Banana?

If so they''re not British.[/quote]Since when has Northern Ireland not been British? It is not part of the British Isles, but it is in the United Kingdom, otherwise called ''Britain''. Whilst you could argue that some people in Northern Ireland consider themselves to be ''Irish'', some 73% wish to remain part of the United Kingdom. There are four ''home nations'', England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. The Northern Irish are as British as the Scottish or the Welsh, even if some of them object to that. Furthermore, and perhaps more alarmingly, since when has our squad contained any players from Northern Ireland? We don''t have any, and with 3500 posts on this forum over three years, I''d have thought that you would know our squad inside out and enough to know that we haven''t had a Northern Irish player since Paul McVeigh. Back to the OP''s post. As others have pointed out, Hoolahan is Irish born and bred. You could also argue that Anthony Pilkington is Irish by virtue of the fact that he made the decision to represent Ireland at International level. Sure, he was born in Blackburn, but Simone Perrotta was born near Manchester and went on to win the World Cup with Italy. If we were playing Simone Perrotta you would have a hard time calling us a completely British XI, so the same should apply to Pilkington. If it is true that Marc Tierney is to play for Ireland, then the same could be said for him too.Still impressive nonetheless.

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[quote user="Chelmsford Canary"]Thats an excellent stat!

Surely looking at Arsenal with 1 there are communication errors? If you were to work with people of different languages there must be mistakes had all the time!

Not saying its the only reason - but must contribute![/quote]LOL Arsenal official team language is French didn''t you know ?

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The name of our country is ''The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.''

Confusingly ''The British Isles'' includes the whole of the island of Ireland.

''Great Britain'' is, however, only the island that includes England, Scotland and Wales. ''Little Britain'' is now Britany in France - note the similarities in Breton, Welsh, Cornish etc.

If you are a Briton then you are so today by nationality or were so 9 thousand years ago before the Celts arrived by ethnicity. There is still a significant ''Briton'' gene pool within Britain today.

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[quote]Furthermore, and perhaps more alarmingly, since when has our squad contained any players from Northern Ireland? We don''t have any, and with 3500 posts on this forum over three years, I''d have thought that you would know our squad inside out and enough to know that we haven''t had a Northern Irish player since Paul McVeigh.[/quote]Huh? He was wrong to think that Northern Ireland isn''t in the UK but he asked if the other teams'' totals that Banana posted included NI players, nothing to do with ours?[quote]Back to the OP''s post. As others have pointed out, Hoolahan is Irish born and bred. You could also argue that Anthony Pilkington is Irish by virtue of the fact that he made the decision to represent Ireland at International level. Sure, he was born in Blackburn, but Simone Perrotta was born near Manchester and went on to win the World Cup with Italy. If we were playing Simone Perrotta you would have a hard time calling us a completely British XI, so the same should apply to Pilkington. If it is true that Marc Tierney is to play for Ireland, then the same could be said for him too.[/quote]Can''t ROI born players opt to play for NI instead and vise versa? So, seeing as Wes only played in a friendly, is it possible that he could get called up to the NI squad and thus be deemed British?

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[quote user="Mr. Bump"][quote]Furthermore, and perhaps more alarmingly, since when has our squad contained any players from Northern Ireland? We don''t have any, and with 3500 posts on this forum over three years, I''d have thought that you would know our squad inside out and enough to know that we haven''t had a Northern Irish player since Paul McVeigh.[/quote]Huh? He was wrong to think that Northern Ireland isn''t in the UK but he asked if the other teams'' totals that Banana posted included NI players, nothing to do with ours?[quote]Back to the OP''s post. As others have pointed out, Hoolahan is Irish born and bred. You could also argue that Anthony Pilkington is Irish by virtue of the fact that he made the decision to represent Ireland at International level. Sure, he was born in Blackburn, but Simone Perrotta was born near Manchester and went on to win the World Cup with Italy. If we were playing Simone Perrotta you would have a hard time calling us a completely British XI, so the same should apply to Pilkington. If it is true that Marc Tierney is to play for Ireland, then the same could be said for him too.[/quote]Can''t ROI born players opt to play for NI instead and vise versa? So, seeing as Wes only played in a friendly, is it possible that he could get called up to the NI squad and thus be deemed British?[/quote]"Huh? He was wrong to think that Northern Ireland isn''t in the UK but he

asked if the other teams'' totals that Banana posted included NI players,

nothing to do with ours?"
Fair enough, it was still a silly thing to say. "Can''t ROI born players opt to play for NI instead and vise versa? So,

seeing as Wes only played in a friendly, is it possible that he could

get called up to the NI squad and thus be deemed British?"
Don''t be so silly. Wes Hoolahan has a full senior cap for the Republic of Ireland, that makes him ineligible for any other nation other than the Republic of Ireland.As for whether an uncapped Wes Hoolahan would be eligible to play for Nothern Ireland, the answer is probably not, dependant on whether any of his parents or grandparents were actually born in Northern Ireland or not. The same rules apply in that direction as apply to every other European team. I know that most British people are proudly ignorant of anything political, but the Good Friday agreement is one of the most famous pieces of documentation in the past two decades, globally in fact. It allowed anybody from Northern Ireland to declare themselves Irish and claim an Irish passport. It did not however allow anybody from the Republic of Ireland to declare themselves British and claim a British passport, for that they had to have proof of British heritage. Pretty much anybody from Northern Ireland can, as a result, declare themselves as Irish and play for the Republic of Ireland. Even if they have no relatives born in Ireland and can in fact trace their roots to England. A player raised in Dublin or Cork, with no immediate relatives from Northern Ireland, would not be able to do the same. So the answer is probably not. Paul McVeigh on the other hand, being from Belfast, could have declared himself Irish and played for Ireland.

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[quote user="NWC"]This thread should keep the xenophobes happy.[/quote]I can''t really see anything xenophobic about this thread, I just see a few people with no grasp of geography or politics. It was just an interesting statistic, at least it would have been had it have been a correct one.

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[quote]Don''t be so silly. Wes Hoolahan has a full senior cap for the Republic of Ireland, that makes him ineligible for any other nation other than the Republic of Ireland. As for whether an uncapped Wes Hoolahan would be eligible to play for Nothern Ireland, the answer is probably not [/quote]No. Don''t be so patronising. Alex Bruce is switching to NI from ROI having played 2 friendly games for ROI, in the same way that Welbeck is still eligible for Ghana despite playing in a friendly for England. As for the rest, fair enough.

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[quote user="Nexus_Canary"][quote user="Chelmsford Canary"]Thats an excellent stat!

Surely looking at Arsenal with 1 there are communication errors? If you were to work with people of different languages there must be mistakes had all the time!

Not saying its the only reason - but must contribute![/quote]LOL Arsenal official team language is French didn''t you know ?[/quote]

Arsenal back five

Polish GK

Brazilan LB

French RB

German and French CB

Recipe for OG''s and mistakes

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Above all else though, don''t we need Clubs prepared to foster and play home grown talent to succeed?

This is why I suggested a few months back that if Lambert succeeded with his philosophy in the EPL he was doing a massive service not just to NCFC but to the British game. Yankee replied that PL already had.

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