I used to go to most L games, when I lived up in L but, since coming down south, and Brighton only had a brief fling in the P div., I haven't been to any. Plus, I don't have satellite (wouldn't if you paid me!) so rarely get to see them on telly, so, what with the price of tickets (even if you CAN get a letter from the Pope entitling you to one), and the fact that I feel somewhat estranged from a team of foreigners, what's the point in being an "armchair" or newspaper-back-page supporter?

I agree that most top "English" clubs have a high proportion of foreign players and I'm not saying that they'd be any better if stripped of them, but, like you say, back in the heyday L seemed to do alright without them. Just makes you think, should EUFA or FIFA make a ruling about local talent to local teams? Remember that this would apply to the foreign teams too, so we'd have a level playing field.

Talking of foreign players, what's Cice for (not sure of spelling)? I see him on the pitch, with his distinctive hair, I see him run around, but I never see him do anything useful.


>yes been a reds fan ever since i used to sit beside a bloke called clive in 2nd class and he had a red bag with all the trophys liverpool had won on it and i thought thats a great side, i'm going to support them. everything went well for a few years, the 80's were good, the 90's didn't pass by quick enough though! i know what you mean about foreign players but the pool are by no means unique, are there any of the top teams with > 50% english players, actually even greater than 50% british and irish players! i think that the only reason the lower teams have so many is because they can't afford the foreign ones. at least we didn't lose on sunday
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>>Just got back to the web after enforced absence.
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>>By "we could have qualified properly" do I take it you're a Reds fan? Liverpool always start the season badly, then they usually have a bad mid-season, but, by the end of the season, they're usually doing badly.
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>>It came as a shock that they won in Europe. You've got to remember that they're not exactly a Liverpool team - mainly a bunch of internationals all wearing red. Back in the day (when they won the E cup all the time) the team comprised mainly locals (and the usual mercenary Scots), and the ubiquitous Scottish manager, a time when no fewer than 7 Liverpool players were in the England team.
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>>Do you think that should tell the powers-that-be something in English football? I must admit to feeling no great sense of MY HOME TOWN having succeeded in the great endeavour.
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>>>ahh the mightiest team in europe, although by saturdays performance you wouldn't think so. i couldn't believe the stat i heard the other day, l'pool had the 4th worst away record in the p'ship and to of the teams with a worse record were relegated, but for a bit of away form we could have qualified properly
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