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Well there will be at least one if not two English teams in the Champions league final. If we have two English teams in the final I will be extremely proud to be English. Just think of some of the players that we will be may able to watch such as
Ronaldo
Drogba
Kuyt
Alonso
Shevchenko
Ballack
Essien
Heinze
Alonso
Agger
The list goes on
I do hope that an English club wins the final.  ;whistle;

after such a nights events i refuse to be cynical,great result for the english premiership-and im a gooner!

Carragher
Crouch
Gerrard
Mascherano
Finnan

At least one English team, will there be at least one English player though?

Liverpool:
Gerrard, Crouch, Carragher, Pennant (as well as Finnan and Bellamy from the other home nations)

Chelsea:
Terry, Lampard, Cole,

Man u:
Ferdinand, Brown, Smith, Scholes (if not suspended), Rooney, Carrick

Have I missed anyone?

the other cole and does bridge still play for chelski  shaun wright phillips 

Scotsman for Man Utd: Fletcher.

I was talking about this with a mate the other day.  He mentioned the other home counties but I dont' agree that you can count them in an English line up, they are as good to England as French, Dutch, German players etc, they are either English or not.


Anyway, it doesn't bother me anyway.  I'm happy to watch the best players in the world playing in the English Premiership.  It's a shame there aren't more English, but what can you do.

Good points! 

united fielded 5 Englishmen last night.but for injury and suspension line up would also have included Scholes and Neville, making 7 English players.

one more than City did on saturday  ;)

I always wonder whether those who bemoan the lack of English players in the top premiership teams

Also bemoan the lack of white sprinters in our atheletics teams  ;ifm;

It's all set for a United Chelsea double final. Looks like those big boys will be battling it out for everything!!

 :redcard:

Blackburn to beat Chelsea on Sunday!

Personally I think the 'Champions League' sucks.

At least the name does. 3 English teams in the semi's now, hardly a league of champions.

All the old European scoring records are getting bladdered now, only because of the volume of games.

Good format, I love watching it but the competition's title is well past it's sell by date.

Dougie.

Heretic

I much prefer being the unnoticed underdog! ;)

So surely it's a Man U, Chelsea end to the season! It'd be silly to see the third placed team fuck things up.... ;)

Yes and have to agree with Richard Dunne our foreign players suck, well may be he didn't use these words but that is what he meant.
My comments aren't aimed at any one team and let's face it Arsenal would have been even worse. But the may the media go on about how wonderful English teams are doing is a bit of a joke. These are in the main English brands or franchises rather than English teams. I am i favour of a ruling that you have a minimum number of English players. An alternative would be how would we feel if an English club made up of 100% Italian players won the Champions league?

what percentage of AC Milan are Italian? or Bayern Munich German? or Barca Spanish, PSV Dutch, etc

are Premiership teams that much worse?

I don't know the answer, I ask cause I don't know

personally, as a Utd fan, I'd rather see Man Utd v Liverpool final.

I'm right behind Blackburn saturday too  ;applause;

Id like to see a Manure v Liverpool final with Liverpool winning 4-3 in the dying seconds with a Gerrard 50 yard screamer.

On the foreigners question, i think each team should be forced to have summat like 4 or 5 English/British (whatever) players in theyre team, but itll never happen.

 ;yellowcard;

chelski are gonna win the quadruple, man u squad is not strong enough to fight on three fronts

Should the British sprint relay team be forced to field two white runners too ?  :tikay:

No. They are too slow.

And alot of english footballers arent good enough.

Although I would like to see more english players at arsenal if they are not good enough why bother??

What english players could arsenal buy that would make our team better.? Gerrard,Lampard,Rooney,Terry arent going anywhere and average players like Owen Hargreves are being touted around for £20m+. Carrick is a good player and goes for £16m+ but hes hardly world class.

SWP went for £21m and even Darren Bent had an £18m price tag on him in the last window.we could end up paying the best part of £12m for Walcott.

If people think that the Premiership is elitest what would it be like if you had to field 3,4,or even 5 englishmen in a team. Chelsea and Man Utd would just buy the decent english players and the rest would be left with the likes of Titus Bramble and Ben Thatcher.

People say that it has an effect on the english national team but in my opinion that is complete BS. The english team at present has some great players in it and is possibly on paper one of the strongest squads in the world, it is just down to poor management that they have underacheived.

I've asked you before to stop using the term scum

thought he looked world class on tuesday

Lol, i forgot sorry. Seriously. Its the only term used for them in Leeds, its not easy.

The mods can delete it.

could you not simply edit it?

Probs not, im too stubborn. Ill just remember in the future. For you.

Its all fair game within the rivalry that is Man Utd/Leeds.

Being a Manchester boy now living on the wrong side of the hill, i get it all the time.  And give it back in the same way, i held a season ticket at Old Trafford for 10 years, to go witness first hand of 60-70 mins straight choruses of ''We all hate leeds scum''.

it's not 'fair game' here though. scum is non-blonde

LOL. its a football discussion board, theres going to be heated opinions + hatred of certain teams from a vast majority of 'die hard' fans.

Im not saying that the usage of said vocabulary is correct, but its going to be brandished around in the football world, why should here be differant?

because we're not on the terraces. you've been here long enough to get it. we don't put each other down, flame, call names, etc.

It's what makes blonde different.

I've said before, I understand how it's being used, but for me the word scum is reserved for the very lowest of the low.

I think I couldve looked world class on tuesday

Bayern and Milan tend to have about 50% of home nation players, but then Germany and Italy are historically providing some of the best players in the world.  The Germans usually do keep themselves to themselves, it's not often you see German players outside Germany and they don't tend to flood their teams with imported players either.  I think the Italians are a bit more like the English teams, they pay for the best, it just happens that a lot of Italians are the best.  I think Spain is pretty much the same, not sure about the Dutch league though, it's a pretty weak league overall imo and they don't attract the best players, so I guess they are mainly homegrown too.

Just my thoughts on this, I could of course be miles off :D

lol.


As i say, im not saying it should be used, just trying to help you see his side.  Il tell him to cool it.

I get it and dont worry, I'm not  ;grr; I'm just asking if we can live without it

can i call fergie a thief and a traitor?

 ;carlocitrone; at the risk of opening a can of worms, why?

ask his former clubs why he is a thief (before aberdeen)

as for trator he was manager of the best team in europe till some 2nd rate enlgish side  made him turn his back on them and run off with the crown jewels

no

you should be proud of a Scotsman who's as successful as he is.

There's no pleasing some people

I think we showed that the three English teams left in the CL all field 5 British players. The team that didn't is out.

:dontask:

Stop taking the p*ss!

Arsenal have Freddy London, Colin Tour, Terry Henry as well as "Big Jules" up front!

I refer to Man Utd as scum in everyday conversations not as a dis but thats what you grew up calling them around Leeds. If you mention scum in football everyone know's who you mean surly?!

No.

 Mention the word scum down south and it is not Man Utd that comes to mind!

Some people grew up calling black people niggers, i suppose that makes it ok as well......

 Bang on the money there flushy.
Whilst the word is readily associated with our friends up the M27 I would always refrain from using it on a forum like blonde because it just ain't right to do so.

Folks, can we please let this one lie now. Scum is not suitable on blonde as a reference to any football team (even Rangers, Rapid Vienna, Racing Club etc ;) ).