I checked against Wiki. There was a Swede and a Frenchman. Some of the others had non-English flags, but were born in England. A bit like Rhoys Wiggins To be honest, the thing I noticed most about their team was the number of loan players. Is there a McDonalds nearby, Mary?
I checked again for you, Typical. Definitely 10 born in England. Wiggins was born in London, FHB, which I think is what typical is getting at.
A homegrown FOOTBALL talent thread might have some merit if you hadn't done the whole Nandos & McDonalds thing. Once you do that it has nothing to do with football and runs counter to much of what the club you support has come to represent. I'm with Tewks on this, Ackworth has nothing on this constant (unrelated) ethnically based stuff, boring and distasteful.
Not just that but the johnny foreigner type stuff is demeaning, it was designed to offend and taunt. I don't get that brand of humour if you can call it humour.
I merely pointed that one English based company like cafc can seek properly qualified and skilled english people for employment then why can't others. That is prejudice of the worst kind and in my book racist when our workforce are overlooked based on race (color irrelevant). I pose the question and others interpreted it as they see fit.
Are you saying that if our intrepid group of Brits came up against Man City's group of international mercenaries then the Brits innate fighting spirit would pull them through? Or would we get a pasting by Johnny Foreigner but go down with chins firmly jutted?
Boring racialism from a Mail on Sunday reading cactus washer no offence, same old boohoohoo why do companies employ non-English people, they employ them because they are the best candidates applying, if your schoolfriends are being passed over for jobs in McDonald's it's because they are not good enough to work there, end of, also there are more English people working overseas then there are non-English people working in England, so your argument is just sausage silly, no offence but I wouldn't hire you to knit my grapefruit no offence.
Thats alright I don't need a job in local government. I left school nearly 30 years ago and have never claimed benefit. I am not a daily mail reader either just saw it in the pub today!! I can tell you what to do with ur grapefruit but you probably have already.
I can't stand this johnny foreigner stuff being trotted out. As someone born in England of European heritage it's a personal slur. International footballers, just like their British counterparts, have made a fantastic contribution to football in this country and to Charlton Athletic and of course will continue to do so under Chris Powell, whatever their number.
No disrespect intended but that unfortunately is not true in all cases, I knew a senior manager once that boasted because the clerks in his office were all from different nationalities, might appear nothing wrong on the face of it however, in my judgement I had reasons to question some of his recruitment. When this happens at senior level, it is very difficult to bring these judgements in to question.
The English, the English, The English are best, I wouldn't give tuppence For all of the rest. Can't say fairer than that.
