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Champions League: An-All English Final?

Salaar ShamsiMay 1, 2008

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 Sarโ€”Netherlands

Nemanja Vidicโ€”Serbia

Patrice Evraโ€”France

Andersonโ€”Brazil

Cristiano Ronaldoโ€”Portugal

Naniโ€”Portugal

Carlos Tevezโ€”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 Cechโ€”Czech Republic

Paulo Ferreiraโ€”Portugal

Alexโ€”Brazil

Ricardo Carvalhoโ€”Portugal

Michael Essienโ€”Ghana

John Obi Mikelโ€”Nigeria

Claude Makeleleโ€”France

Michael Ballackโ€”Germany

Florent Maloudaโ€”France

Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalouโ€”Ivory Coast

Nicolas Anelkaโ€”France

Andriy Shevchenkoโ€”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.