How can I say this without causing offence?

[blackburn_stevie]

I can't, so I won't even try. Let's just say it was about the names on the jerseys of the "English" football team players. and leave it at that.

[rednoise2001]

Can you expand just a bit please..?

[rednoise2001]

Can see four names that are not traditionally `anglo saxon`, your point is ?

[blackburn_stevie]

http://www.evertonfc.com/match/everton-squad.html

48 team players with 18 English

Arsenal Goalies ... Viviano, Fabianski and Szczesny.

Defenders ... Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Jenkinson & Gibbs.

Of the 10 midfielders there are 2 with English sounding names, Wilshere and Ramsey.

Of the forwads there are 9 players, 2 of which have English sounding names.

Hence the title of what happened when I watched part of the ENGLISH  FA Cup football. It's just a farce.

[rednoise2001]

These are CLUB sides, not the English national side. These players are here because of the obscene wages on offer from the Premier league, so your point is invalid.

[blackburn_stevie]

rednoise ... Please note that in the OP the word English is in parenthesis.
I just meant it to mean that it was teams within the English League clubs.

[rednoise2001]

Point taken Stevie, my apologies.

Do you think a cap on foreign players would ever be accepted by the PC brigade ect.?

[blackburn_stevie]

I doubt it very much, though a cap on wages may just slow the border entrances down a bit.

[al**bear]

But Steve most of the 'crazy gang' at Wimbeldon, were at it, in the late 80s/90s

not a lot of 'visitors' in that bunch

[mustard-tree]

I am probably over simplifying things here, but could the answer be money?

Imagine a Premier team need a new striker or whatever

Is it possible that the transfer fee for a player from a foreign team would be a lot less than for a player of equal talent and ability from another Premier team or even from a lower division.

I may have got it wrong, but just a thought.

And quite a few of our home grown players are now playing overseas.

There could be a similar thread running on a forum in another country, regarding the number of English names on jerseys..

[blackburn_stevie]

You are probably right, H-B.

But with regard to the match that caused the OP, a match being played as a part of an ENGLISH cup game, there were 6 players in view at one time when the shot was frozen due to after-match commentary in the studio. There wasn't a single (cough) anglo-saxon face.