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No foreign players please, we're British.


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19 hours ago, Grimbeard said:

If provincialism is is nasty and to be frowned upon, does that mean we shouldn't support Derby just because we come from Derby?

Derby is a multi-cultural city - look around you at matches, even if the supporters are not an exact match of the actual proportions who live here. We do support Derby cos we come from Derby, but that doesn't mean the players have to come from Derby or the UK. 

Stimac, Eranio, Baiano, Wanchope, Kinkladze, Idiakez  and quite a few more - would we not have wanted these players?

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21 minutes ago, DRBee said:

Derby is a multi-cultural city - look around you at matches, even if the supporters are not an exact match of the actual proportions who live here. We do support Derby cos we come from Derby, but that doesn't mean the players have to come from Derby or the UK. 

Stimac, Eranio, Baiano, Wanchope, Kinkladze, Idiakez  and quite a few more - would we not have wanted these players?

It's all about balance though. The English game is awash with money compared to other nations. Therefore we can afford to pay foreign players more than their home countries can. So, for the same money you can get a foreign international or an unproven Englishman, managers haven't got the time to waste on developing the Englishman. 

I would think that even our championship now has fewer home grown players than other countries top division have. 

This is not great for the development of the national team. 

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On 23/09/2018 at 02:42, RamNut said:

Not sure if this has slipped under the radar. i hadn't noticed until today.....but.....we named a team with no foreign players in it .......

Carson - england

bogle - england

forsyth - scotland

keogh - ireland

tomori - england

johnson - england

bryson - scotland

mount - england

bennett - england

nugent - england 

wilson - wales

 

no foreign players. All GB and Ireland..........(for the fifth time this season).

what would jim smith say?

Frank Lampard's Brexit County??  We'll soon be Farage's favourite team ?

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22 hours ago, DRBee said:

Derby is a multi-cultural city - look around you at matches, even if the supporters are not an exact match of the actual proportions who live here. We do support Derby cos we come from Derby, but that doesn't mean the players have to come from Derby or the UK. 

Stimac, Eranio, Baiano, Wanchope, Kinkladze, Idiakez  and quite a few more - would we not have wanted these players?

You seem to be comparing foreigners with British people from ethnic minorities.

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22 hours ago, DRBee said:

Derby is a multi-cultural city - look around you at matches, even if the supporters are not an exact match of the actual proportions who live here. We do support Derby cos we come from Derby, but that doesn't mean the players have to come from Derby or the UK. 

Stimac, Eranio, Baiano, Wanchope, Kinkladze, Idiakez  and quite a few more - would we not have wanted these players?

I don't

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42 minutes ago, StringerBell said:

You seem to be comparing foreigners with British people from ethnic minorities.

Nope ... there will be many in Derby who do not yet have UK citizenship, and the British people from ethnic minorities will have plenty of relatives who are non-British. Will they enjoy the " no foreigners please" ?

And what about the Polish and other EU migrants who are not British?

How do you think Josefzoon would react on reading the original post?

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2 minutes ago, DRBee said:

Nope ... there will be many in Derby who do not yet have UK citizenship, and the British people from ethnic minorities will have plenty of relatives who are non-British. Will they enjoy the " no foreigners please" ?

How do you think Josefzoon would react on reading the original post?

so are British ethnics whose relatives are not British not foreigners 

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2 hours ago, DRBee said:

Nope ... there will be many in Derby who do not yet have UK citizenship, and the British people from ethnic minorities will have plenty of relatives who are non-British. Will they enjoy the " no foreigners please" ?

And what about the Polish and other EU migrants who are not British?

How do you think Josefzoon would react on reading the original post?

They don't have UK citizenship but they're from Derby? I'm confused.

I'd hope Josefzoon would react in a similar way to the way I'd react if I played in the, I dunno, the J-league or something. Which would be "Yeah fair enough"

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