Can we have an English team consisting of English players ?

[War]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

War's black?

Ha ye. But the technically i would be referred to as mixed raced, since my old man is half white like Obama.

 

[sifter132]

Funny how it has only become a stick to beat England with now we're doing well, wasn't (to the same extent) when our team had the likes of Graeme Hick, Syd Lawrence, Andy Caddick, Phil DeFreitas, Martin McCague, Gavin Hamilton, Allan Lamb, Robin Smith, Dougie Brown, Dermot Reeve, Devon Malcolm, Min Patel etc in it..................

It's not like it's new, it's just some have a stick up their behind about it.

Well actually I know it was mentioned quite often in Australia how Lamb and Smith were South African, and that McCague was Aussie etc. but at that time it was more laughing at England's incompetence ie. that they had imports and still got flogged. Now it's only cropped up again because there are a handful of players that aren't 'pure' English - and I use that term tentatively...If it was just one or 2 I don't think there'd be such an issue about it. To me there's nothing racial about it - it's just a coincidence, and it's being pointed out.

Anyway, I closed the Rankin thread - that was off-topic and going nowhere fast, and this one better go nowhere as well...

 

[puddleduck]

So, if we had to put out a pure British team, who would play?

W G Grace?
Henry the Eighth?
Beowulf? (Ray Winston's British right?)
Prince Charles.
Atherton? He always seems very British, was even rubbish at cheating.
Graham Taylor?
Shakespeare?
King Harold? Struggles with the short ball though.

Hmm... Not sure how many of them are actually British enough though.

 

[barmyarmy]

W G Grace? - Looks like a druid. Prob Welsh.
Henry the Eighth? -Def Welsh
Beowulf? - German
Prince Charles - very German
Atherton? - Strikes me as Welsh tbh
Graham Taylor? - Turnipish
Shakespeare? - Brummie
King Harold? - Saxon (German)

I guess we haven't had many ethnic Brits since the Romans, Saxons and Normans replaced them.

I propose the following batting line-up:

Caratacus
Boudicca
Old King Cole
King Arthur
Anticlimax
Mykingdomforanos
Some South Africans

 

[puddleduck]

Haha, I like how you excluded Shakespeare for being a brummy

I've seen Beowulf, and there's no way Ray Winston isn't British. He'd fight you for suggesting otherwise, and that's about as British as you can be.

We can keep the Welshies since technically they're allowed in the England and Wales Cricket Board.

King Arthur's a good shout, even if no one's actually sure he existed. I heard Merlin has a cracking leg-break...

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Mykingdomforanos... well played Sir

 

[War]

W G Grace? - Looks like a druid. Prob Welsh.
Henry the Eighth? -Def Welsh
Beowulf? - German
Prince Charles - very German
Atherton? - Strikes me as Welsh tbh
Graham Taylor? - Turnipish
Shakespeare? - Brummie
King Harold? - Saxon (German)

I guess we haven't had many ethnic Brits since the Romans, Saxons and Normans replaced them.

I propose the following batting line-up:

Caratacus
Boudicca
Old King Cole
King Arthur
Anticlimax
Mykingdomforanos
Some South Africans

love this.

 

[Owzat]

Well actually I know it was mentioned quite often in Australia how Lamb and Smith were South African, and that McCague was Aussie etc.

McCague is norn oirish, brought up in oz. It's another one of those where people don't even check origins, less easy back then of course.

To me there's nothing racial about it - it's just a coincidence, and it's being pointed out. [/QUOTE]

It is when people start assuming someone isn't English on the colour of their skin, but I'll leave it there.


Dunno why johnny foreigner should be moaning about our players' origins when the same lax laws that let us pick and choose from plenty of players also allows floods of people from all over to come here and live in England We're a multicultural, multinational country so why shouldn't our team be?!?!? If anyone wanted to go to India, Pakistan, West Indies etc they'd have a similar situation (I left out oz, kiwis, saffers etc purely because people DO want to go and live there, oz has much tighter immigration control...............)

 

[MUFC1987]

Forget this all English stuff, Somerset could almost put out a full Westcountry XI.

 

[barmyarmy]

Well only 20 years ago Michael Vaughan caused a huge fuss by becoming the first player not born in Yorkshire to play for the county. They had to change the rules.