United Nations of QPR

It's just struck me that by the end of this window our starting lineup could look something like - Cesar, Onuoha, Nelsen, AN Other, Fabio/Traore, Mvila, Mbia, Taarabt, Granero, Remy, Hoilett.

This would include only one player qualified to play for England and 3 with English as their first language. Intention isn't to start yet another thread about team selection, but get thoughts on how people feel about the foreign legion wearing the Hoops. Personally I find it a little strange, but won't care as long as we win.....and survive.

 

I've been thinking the same sb. It is something that takes a little time to get used to for me. But as you say, as long as they get us out of the ****, it won't matter.

Cue accusations of racism etc.

 

? Can't see how racism comes into it. Harold, the most English of managers, has made multinational teams work at Portsmouth and Spurs, so I'm sure it can be done.

Would love Roller's perspective on this one......

 

Racist!

 

I doubt it will ever quite come to that. Harold has seen the value of a core of hardworking British gritty players he can depend on The three obvious examples who spring to mind are Clint Hill, Jamie Mackie and Sean Derry. Bus loads of foreigners (excuse the pun, no racism intended) can be shipped in but these three always seem to fight their way back into the team. Long may it continue. Even though Hill and Derry must surely be reaching the end (the cost of maintenance of the moving parts will eventually outweigh the benefit of the fewer matches they play) but Harold is alive to that. Otherwise he would not be looking to bring in players in the mould of Dawson, Parker and Livermore.

Anyway my answer to the questions is the same as yours. I don't care where they come from or what colour or shape they are provided that they play well and are willing to put in a shift for the team.

 

the good thing is, half of the team can communicate in French, their native language

 

Is that a good thing really ?

 

If Joey comes back he can be translator

 

well, i'd say it's better than having 9 or 10 different languages in the team

 

Then they all would have to speak English, which is better than having 6 players talking on french and nobody else understanding

 

with many of them speaking the same language, the ones that are not as good in english can be helped out by those who speak and understand it better, but i can see your point too, both have advantages and disadvantages.

 

Can't see why you'd find it "strange" or would need time to "get used to it". According to the last census, whites are a minority now in London. I would have thought you'd already have been used to such phenomena.

Strange thread to be honest.

 

Can't see why you'd find it "strange" or would need time to "get used to it". According to the last census, native whites are a minority now in London. I would have thought you'd already have been used to such phenomena.

Strange thread to be honest.

 

That is bollocks

 

true, Polish are white

 

Yeah, it might have a chance of being true if they weren't!

 

'British whites' are the minority in London for the first time as census shows number of UK immigrants has jumped by 3million in 10 years
Just 44.9% of Londoners are White British, according to census data
7.5million residents of England and Wales were foreign-born in 2011
Census data reveal just 59% now call themselves Christian as a quarter say they have no religion and 5% are Muslim
Less than 90% of country is white for the first time ever
Home ownership declines but more people have paid off their mortgages
Marriage rate dips to record low as fewer than half are hitched

By HUGO GYE
PUBLISHED: 10:39 GMT, 11 December 2012 | UPDATED: 09:28 GMT, 12 December 2012


White British people are now in a minority in London for the first time, it emerged today as census data revealed that the immigrant population of England and Wales went up by 3million over the past decade.
Just 3.7million Londoners described their ethnicity as 'White British' in 2011 - down from 4.3million in 2001, and making up 44.9 per cent of the city's population.
It is believed to be the first time that British whites have become a minority in any region of the UK.
Another major change to the nation came in the decreasing number of Christians - 4million fewer people claimed to belong to the faith as a quarter of Britons said they had no religion.

Foreign-born: This map shows the number of British-born people living in England. Darker areas indicate a higher number of British-born individuals living in an area, while lighter areas have a higher number of foreign-born residents. The figures - the ranges of which are found in the bottom left-hand corner - are taken from the 2011 census, conducted by the Office for National Statistics
In 2011, 7.5million residents were foreign-born, making up 13 per cent, or one in eight of the population - up from 4.6million people in 2001.
The total population of England and Wales was 56.1million, a seven per cent increase on 2001 - and 55 per cent of the increase is due to migration.
There were 33.2million people claiming to be Christian, down from 37.3million in 2001 and making up just 59 per cent of the population.
25.1 per cent of people said they had no faith, up from 14.8 per cent a decade earlier, while the proportion of Muslims rose from 3.0 per cent to 4.8 per cent.

LONDON'S ETHNIC MAKEUP
White British: 44.9%
Other white: 14.9%
Asian: 18.4%
Black: 13.3%
Arab: 1.3%
Mixed race: 5%

The third most popular religion was Hinduism, with 1.5 per cent of the population, while 0.8 per cent were Sikhs and 0.5 per cent Jewish.
Nearly 180,000 claimed to be followers of the Jedi religion featured in Star Wars - down from 2001, when around 400,000 jokingly put the faith down on their census form.
The statistics emerged as the Archbishop of Canterbury claimed that English cathedral congregations had grown dramatically in recent years, debunking the 'cliché' that the Church of England is fading away.
Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, said the decline in religion was 'really significant', adding: 'In spite of a biased question that positively encourages religious responses, to see such an increase in the non-religious and such a decrease in those reporting themselves as Christian is astounding.
'Of course these figures still exaggerate the number of Christians overall - the number of believing, practising Christians is much lower than this and the number of those leading their lives with no reference to religion much higher.'
But Nick Spencer, research director at theology think-tank Theos, argued 'Religion is difficult to define and difficult to measure.
'The census measures religious identification, not beliefs or practice. It's about what people call themselves, and which group they wish to identify with.
'These figures show that we have a plural religious landscape, but that doesn't mean we're atheists. Digging deeper, we see that even those who say they have no religion often have a variety of spiritual beliefs, but they don't want to associate these to religious institutions.'


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Wasn't it that 'White British' were the minority, not white people in general? (can't be bothered to google).

As for the topic, couldn't care less where they come from as long as they play well.

Edit: posted at the same time as our resident bigot!

 

Excuse me? What the fu*k is that supposed to mean? I'm not the c*nt that can't get his head around foreigners playing for our team.

I expect an apology forthwith

 

Dadddddddddddd!!!!!!! I caught myself a keeper!