Comments on: Daily Dose 12.12.07 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/daily-dose-121207.html League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:45:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/daily-dose-121207.html#comment-85614 Ian Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:06:56 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/daily-dose-121207.html#comment-85614 English fans (most of them anyway) aren't calling for quotas on a race, they're calling for a minimum of three or four players on an English side being English. It's a tricky issue, and it's hard for me to see it as Black-and-White as you do. The anonymity of the internet allows you to call English fans racists, and that's the way things are, but I hope you realize that the issue is a bit more complicated than that. If I'm honest, I don't know where I stand on it. I think I'd be in favor of a small quota, a minimum of two or three English players on a squad. This isn't the same thing. Also, are there no rights given to foreign spouses of English citizens? I would think that being married to an Englishwoman would grant the player at least residence, if not more. English fans (most of them anyway) aren’t calling for quotas on a race, they’re calling for a minimum of three or four players on an English side being English. It’s a tricky issue, and it’s hard for me to see it as Black-and-White as you do. The anonymity of the internet allows you to call English fans racists, and that’s the way things are, but I hope you realize that the issue is a bit more complicated than that. If I’m honest, I don’t know where I stand on it. I think I’d be in favor of a small quota, a minimum of two or three English players on a squad. This isn’t the same thing.

Also, are there no rights given to foreign spouses of English citizens? I would think that being married to an Englishwoman would grant the player at least residence, if not more.

]]> By: Hypocritical http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/daily-dose-121207.html#comment-85601 Hypocritical Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:40:13 +0000 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/daily-dose-121207.html#comment-85601 While I am on the side of the player, I do find it interesting that an English person calls for his safety. After all, the typically "loving" and "inclusive" English fans have been calling for quotas on negroes and the such for such a long, long time now. And finally their gov't represented them and now they feel guilty. How 1800's white guilt of them. While I am on the side of the player, I do find it interesting that an English person calls for his safety. After all, the typically “loving” and “inclusive” English fans have been calling for quotas on negroes and the such for such a long, long time now. And finally their gov’t represented them and now they feel guilty. How 1800’s white guilt of them.

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