Champions League: An-All English Final?
Manchester United vs Chelsea in Moscow, it's an all-English final but to enforce a point made by Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter, it really can't be called an all-English final because not even half the players on the pitch will be from England.
Looking at Manchester United:
Edwin Van der Sar—Netherlands
Nemanja Vidic—Serbia
Patrice Evra—France
Anderson—Brazil
Cristiano Ronaldo—Portugal
Nani—Portugal
Carlos Tevez—Argentina
Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand,Paul Scholes,Wes Brown, Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves are the only English players in the team. However, Ryan Giggs(Wales) and Darren Fletcher (Scotland) could be called "British" players.
Chelsea have foreign players in abundance:
Petr Cech—Czech Republic
Paulo Ferreira—Portugal
Alex—Brazil
Ricardo Carvalho—Portugal
Michael Essien—Ghana
John Obi Mikel—Nigeria
Claude Makelele—France
Michael Ballack—Germany
Florent Malouda—France
Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou—Ivory Coast
Nicolas Anelka—France
Andriy Shevchenko—Ukraine
Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole and John Terry appear to be the only Englishmen from the possible starters.
Looking at this, do you think the number of foreign players in a club should be reduced, restricted or limited in any way?
However, both teams are after all from England.










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