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Originally Posted by JT
who cares how many british players we had - for a start we are an english club so we have no reason to play scottish welsh and irish players any more than celtic, rhyl or cork have to pick english ones. secondly we aren't there to forward the cause of the england national team. we are there to do the best for arsenal. if in doing that we can help the england team then fine but we don't owe them anything. the fact of the matter is that when on form we have 2 england regulars playing for us and have just signed probably the most promising youngster since rooney. most of the rest of the english players that have been around the club for the last 5/6 years have simply not been good enough to make the grade
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Sorry but Matt Upson became an England international when he left. Jermaine Pennant and Jerome Thomas could have done something too but they weren't given oppotunities to prove themselves. Stuart Taylor wasn't doing too bad either before he got sold. The only English players who definately couldn't cut the mustard were Richard Wright and Francis Jeffers. Ryan Smith will probably be shipped off before he gets his chance too.
And the British players thing does make a difference when you lot are crying about how other British teams don't follow you in Europe.