ENGLISH Cup Semi-Final - TWO English players

goldstone · Apr 14, 2013

Makes me frigging angry. Bloody foreign players. And two foreign managers.

A quick glance seems to indicate only Milner and Barry are English. Chelsea have not one English player on the pitch.

It's OUR FA Cup. There should be a requirement for at least 6 English players per team.

Someone is inevitably going to say, what about the Albion and all our foreign players and our foreign manager? Well, truthfully I wish we had more English players.

pork pie · Apr 14, 2013

You and me both mate.

Thunder Bolt · Apr 14, 2013

Poor old you.
Does that include Scots & Welsh players?

bn1&bn3 Albion · Apr 14, 2013

Until we put a lot more focus on kids football we are always going to have more foreign players..

dougdeep · Apr 14, 2013

Racism is alive and well.

The Camel · Apr 14, 2013

Ummmm not many more than that in the Brighton team!

SeagullSongs · Apr 14, 2013

Bertrand is playing.

Also, Terry, Turnbull, Lampard, Hart, Lescott and Sinclair are on the benches. Keep your hair on.

albionalbino · Apr 14, 2013

Cracking game though.

What would you suggest for Cardiff or Swansea? Should they be forced to have six English players or six Welsh players?

Stat Brother · Apr 14, 2013

***cough*** you do know half our team are foreigners ***cough***

SamPeters18 · Apr 14, 2013

Ankergren - Danish
Calderon - Spanish
Greer - Scottish
Upson - English
Bridge - English
Bridcutt - Scottish
Hammond - English
Crofts - Welsh
David Lopez - Spanish
Orlandi - Spanish
Ulloa - Argentine

Subs
Brezovan - Slovakian
El-Abd - Egyptian
Painter - Irish
Vicente - Spanish
Dicker - Irish
JFC - English
Barker - English

We only had 5 Englishmen in the whole 18 yesterday....

PILTDOWN MAN · Apr 14, 2013

And neither of the two you mention are particularly top class.

Seasider78 · Apr 14, 2013

Perhaps a better question to ask is why are oversees players so much more skilful and talented that our inferior home grown players.

That and the prices £8 million for Jordan Rhodes and lets not even start on andy Carroll

Frutos · Apr 14, 2013

goldstone said:
Well, truthfully I wish we had more English players.

I want us to have the best players available to us, I couldn't give a tinker's toss where they were born.

Thunder Bolt · Apr 14, 2013

SamPeters18 said:
Ankergren - Danish
Calderon - Spanish
Greer - Scottish
Upson - English
Bridge - English
Bridcutt - Scottish
Hammond - English
Crofts - Welsh
David Lopez - Spanish
Orlandi - Spanish
Ulloa - Argentine

Subs
Brezovan - Slovakian
El-Abd - Egyptian
Painter - Irish
Vicente - Spanish
Dicker - Irish
JFC - English
Barker - English

We only had 5 Englishmen in the whole 18 yesterday....

3 of those 'foreigners' were born in England.

albionalbino · Apr 14, 2013

SamPeters18 said:
Ankergren - Danish
Calderon - Spanish
Greer - Scottish
Upson - English
Bridge - English
Bridcutt - Scottish
Hammond - English
Crofts - Welsh
David Lopez - Spanish
Orlandi - Spanish
Ulloa - Argentine

Subs
Brezovan - Slovakian
El-Abd - Egyptian
Painter - Irish
Vicente - Spanish
Dicker - Irish
JFC - English
Barker - English

We only had 5 Englishmen in the whole 18 yesterday....

Three of these are on loan.

Hyperion · Apr 14, 2013

SamPeters18 said:
Ankergren - Danish
Calderon - Spanish
Greer - Scottish
Upson - English
Bridge - English
Bridcutt - Scottish
Hammond - English
Crofts - Welsh
David Lopez - Spanish
Orlandi - Spanish
Ulloa - Argentine

Subs
Brezovan - Slovakian
El-Abd - Egyptian
Painter - Irish
Vicente - Spanish
Dicker - Irish
JFC - English
Barker - English

We only had 5 Englishmen in the whole 18 yesterday....

Bridcutt is English. He just qualifies for Scotland, he is not Scottish

Thunder Bolt · Apr 14, 2013

Frutos said:
I want us to have the best players available to us, I couldn't give a tinker's toss where they were born.

As would most right thinking fans. I'd like to think the OP was fishing, but unfortunately I don't think he was.

Goldstone Rapper · Apr 14, 2013

goldstone said:
There should be a requirement for at least 6 English players per team.

This is just political correctness gone mad, artificially propping up uncompetitive English players who aren't good enough. And what are these English players (who are only able to get into the side because of these quotas) going to do against more skilful foreign players once they're out on the pitch? Are they going to be allowed to handle the ball so they don't get their arses whipped?

Stat Brother · Apr 14, 2013

goldstone said:
truthfully I wish we had more English players.

That's crazy talk from a crazy man.

Even if there wasn't a huge financial gap between 'us and them', the talent gap alone has me hoping Gus does all his shopping duty free, this summer.

El Presidente · Apr 14, 2013

I suspect the OP and Porkie secretly want Russell Slade, Chris Holroyd and Mark Walton back, tried and tested ENGLISH stars.

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