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The smaller British nations were frightened that England would steal all their best players because of the better league and the 5 year ruling so England agreed to only play English players and signed something to this effect IIRC.

Let us not forget the French national football team has often used French speaking Africans to bolster their ranks. Didn't the 2006 team have four or five?

As I mentioned above, the home nation agreement was implemented to prevent larger footballing nations from poaching players from "lesser" countries. France is hardly a lesser footballing nation and they don't want Morgan, it's not like we're stealing him. (All totally hypothetical as he is ineligible anyway).

He's been in England for the last quarter of his life, I'm sure he feels a strong connection to it, why shouldn't he consider playing for them?

Agreed, sod the home nations agreement, this isn't a bigger footballing country poaching a young player which was the intention of the rule, this is Deschamps totally ignoring a very good player.

I'm not feeling great about this one, let's prove me wrong then

To be fair, that data says it uses last seasons wage figures which would have increased significantly considering the extensions made.

#Love the lunatic 2014 campaign. Boruc is a great keeper but he has his mental issues, if he didn't he would be starting for a Champions League club rather than us.

Deserved, the arsehole, he's making a right tit of himself this season. I was actually quite upset when we swopped him for Nige though.

We have culpable homicide, not manslaughter.

Hollow points are actually often used for home defense as they don't have any penetrating power so there's less likely to be collateral damage. They are nasty as all hell though and turn you into human soup.

If we couldn't beat Sunderland, how the hell would we have beat Arsenal who desperately need a cup victory?

They stole our head of youth development, I imagine he knows full well how we operate.

Anders, and Beattie aside from M. Svensson and Niemi.

He's been good all year?

He was the largest reason for us being back in the prem and English top scorer last year IIRC.

Bearsy?

He has 8 years to catch up to Toure and the makings of a very good player, just ask Celtic fans.

Only been out of the game 8 years, why not?

Not that bit really no, our players only really came to the fore when we as a club started doing well. If anything it proves that there is a club bias rather than a focus on individual players' performance.

Fair point, it just feels like our front line is out of form right now.

No, but our last three games have seen us score two goals so not really in the same goal-scoring league as Liverpool at the moment with 8 in 3.

We are incapable of scoring right now so a game of who's the better scorers isn't really a bright spot.