this is all very amusing but remember we're paying Super Jackboot for his passing vision, not his political vision.
As long as he doesn't go all Stoke City and start sending Ozil pigs heads for japes I could care less if he is privately a John Terry fan.
true however it is quite refreshing to see a player give his opinion freely instead of the usual we will try our best/we will come back stronger the next game bollocks most come out with these daysOriginally Posted by Nayan
give it up boy. He is full of shit. Thing is he is a 20 year old footballer who would in all probablity be on EDL marches if he couldnt play football. No problem with that - we wanted more snarl and bite in our squad and now we have it.
Keep it in perspective though. Terry and Suarez are even more overt about their leanings, Joey Barton's brother is an actual racist murderer and Ravel Morrison was done for witness intimidation. Allegedly
Jackboot smokes cigarettes and sounds like someones obnoxious grandma . Big fucking deal.
how was he pwned by fashinu? if you moved to spain and lived there for five years, would you consider yourself spanish or english?You know you're in trouble when you're getting pwned (as the kids are saying) by John Fashinu.
and its the same for a young player, if you live in one country, grow up in that country, your parents are from that country, you speak that country's language and move to another country just to play football, you wouldnt then go I'm now that country's nationality. you would just be working in that country while still being your original nationality.
he might be full of shit, and tweet about fifa and his child and spit on spurs fans, however we are not talking about that. we are talking about what he said in this interview. the media have gone to town on this.
ill ask you a question. whatever nationality you are (i dont know so apologies) now, if you were to move country to work, would you consider yourself after five years to be your current nationality or would you have become the nationality of whereever you moved too? im pretty sure you would still consider yourself to be your original nationality.
also if we are not careful, international football will soon become club football with countries trying to sign if you like, the best talents. they will scouts, find the good young kids and sign them to their country.
To be fair to him, I guess it depends on what he means by "English".
If he is referring to the likes of Januzaj, even if not implicitly, then he may have a point. It does render the whole idea of international football kinda useless if you can just pick and choose halfway through your career, on the other hand other countries are at it and we need all the help we can get to compete with them.
But, and I suspect this is what he actually means, if he is only referring to those born within the geographical border then he is on slippery ground. And given we've gone way past the point of no return with regard to immigration it's a situation that will only become more common.
I'm far more depressed by his description of British football. It's horribly accurate.... and one of the main reasons we're perennially shit.
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The joke about him not getting in the Spanish team was a good one.
I never though Almunia should be considered for England so in that sense I agree players shouldn't just live in a country for a few years to become eligible.
That said, Jack should shut his yap about things like this. He has a right to an opinion but is it really a good idea to be spouting it in the media?
To be fair, he's just answering a question he's been asked.
That being said, I'm beginning to not like Jack very much.
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
i disagree with what you think he meant. By saying the five years in spain thing, it clearly shows to me that he was talking about the qualifying for england by living here for five years. I dont think he would suggest you cant play for england if you werent born here as you cant help where you are born.
The GHEL is right about point of nationality and national sport representation, and I am not even English. Surely people can't just turn around after living here 5 years and suddenly they can play for England, that's some real bullshit.
....but hey the FA is fine with it and "offended minorities" are up in arms, so farkin' what. People try so hard to fit in, so much so that they are willing to sell out their identity, heritage, pride, honour, history and dignity for money.
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