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 SarโNetherlands
Nemanja VidicโSerbia
Patrice EvraโFrance
AndersonโBrazil
Cristiano RonaldoโPortugal
NaniโPortugal
Carlos TevezโArgentina
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 CechโCzech Republic
Paulo FerreiraโPortugal
AlexโBrazil
Ricardo CarvalhoโPortugal
Michael EssienโGhana
John Obi MikelโNigeria
Claude MakeleleโFrance
Michael BallackโGermany
Florent MaloudaโFrance
Didier Drogba and Salomon KalouโIvory Coast
Nicolas AnelkaโFrance
Andriy ShevchenkoโUkraine
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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