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  1. RebelBhoy

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    Eoin Morgan doesn't.

    Technicality: it is a European passport these days, not a British one.
     
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    RebelBhoy, Jul 12, 2013
  2. Archers Road

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    Cook needs to stay in all day now. Isn't Alastair a Scotch name btw?
     
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  3. DevAdvocate

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    <laugh>
     
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  4. DevAdvocate

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    I think so, but Cook is definitely Paddyish.
     
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  5. Mick O'Toon

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    Nope
     
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  6. Bib Fortuna's Maw

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    It's Scottish for Alexander - the original spelling is with a D and some ****s will argue that all the other spellings are Anglicisations.

    Like:

     
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  7. RebelBhoy

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    I think Adil Rashid, Mudhsuden Singh Panesar and Ravinder Singh Bopara are Buckinghamshire names are they not?
     
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  8. DevAdvocate

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    You should get a job on Pointless Bib

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  9. stopmeandslapme

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    Ok, I should have said: "If you have a British passport, you could represent England at cricket".
     
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  10. RebelBhoy

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    Whit the ****?

    Aldair?

    Aldair, Aldair Alwaddly waddly day.


    Get yer Cooks out
     
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  11. Mick O'Toon

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    .<laugh>
     
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  12. RebelBhoy

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    And they give those to South Africans who can play cricket<ok>
     
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  13. Mick O'Toon

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    Nope
     
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  14. stopmeandslapme

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    The ECB issues passports?
     
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  15. Bib Fortuna's Maw

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    It was in yer Murton guy's Clans of Scotland series - I'm pretty sure there's a mountain named Ben Alasdair or something which is the ancestral seat of some clan - McAllistair or the Alexanders or somesuch.

    While I'm on it, Neil Oliver's History of Scotland series has Episode 2 on the iPlayer the now about the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions - proper interesting and in a fairly modern context given the plums that are marching today behind a Scottish flag for a guy that saw Scots as at best, a nuisance and, at worst, a hindrance that he wouldn't have minded exterminating.
     
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  16. stopmeandslapme

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    ?
     
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  17. RebelBhoy

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    No, I don't think the European Central Bank concern themselves in these matters.
     
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  18. DevAdvocate

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    I don't have an issue with South Africans playing for England, they were nice enough to help us during the war after all.
     
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  19. stopmeandslapme

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    You're a funny guy.
     
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  20. DevAdvocate

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    Aye, imagine idiots fighting and dying so some Eytie upstart could lord it over all of them.
     
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