| Rogorn |
| (member) |
| 09/07/2008 13:29 |
Re: Six plus Five
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If I live in Spain for 5 years I am not Spanish I am British living in Spain. The fact I can hold a Spanish passport does not change that fact.
Why would you apply for a Spanish passport then? To have access to rights denied to foreigners, among them representing their sporting teams if that's a career move you want to pursue. It's a person's right to do so, and a country's right to accept that, or not, according to their laws, nobody else's, and much less football fans.
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I don't want an English national team made up of a Brazilian, an Italian, A Dutchman, a Pole, 2 Scots, A Saudi and perhaps 1 Englishman. It totally dilutes the idea that it is INTERNATIONAL Football.
Don't worry, that won't happen. All those people will be British citizens when they play for England.
Only the British government decides who is British or not, and only the England manager (sometimes an unselectable foreigner himself) decides who gets a cap.