“Go back to your country”, he typed, he thought, he yelled, he spat, he fumed.
“They should go back to their country”, he reasoned with friends, he told his politician, he reckoned with the warden, he argued on the promenade.
“They’re useless good for nothings”, he supposed with no one in particular, he ruminated on the message boards, he mumbled lost in thought.
“This integration business will never work”, he concluded.
Then. When the anger subsided he put on the Manchester United football gear and bumbled away to support his idols…. Shinji Kagawa, Robin Van Persie, Javier Hernandez Balcazar (Chicharito), Nani, Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira,Rafael Pereira da Silva, Nemanja Vidic, Alexander Buttner, David De Gea, Anders Lindegaard. You know… the locals. I’d mention Rooney but he wants out.
From the Daily Mail:
Question: How many foreign players appeared on the opening weekend of the inaugural Premier League season in August 1992? Answer: 13.
Here’s another one. What percentage of foreigners made up Premier League squads when England’s top-flight celebrated its 20th anniversary last summer? Answer: 62 per cent.
“Foreigners go home” he squealed.
(and before you say anything, the most expensive (valued) player in the English Premier League is… Welsh).
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According to the British government, if the foreign players are illegal immigrants, they should be sent home or face arrest. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23489925
There is also the issue whether the flood of foreign players playing in the British leagues is always beneficial. One can read the whole Daily Mail article, from which you quoted, on this point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2345507/Premier-League-continues-flooded-foreign-players-including-Sergio-Aguero-Robin-van-Persie-Jesus-Navas–Chris-Wheeler.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
David Borg. Go back to your country.
coming back home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrpT5ecmQSU
In fairness, within the massed ranks of the anti-immigrant brigade, only the dyed-in-the-wool racists object to the presence of black players in the top-notch European football teams. The rest accept them because of their legal status. Perhaps the real reason they do not clamour for their expulsion is because the trappings of the players’ success somehow neutralise their “foreignness”.
Locally, the remarks passed by Alfred Grima, the former PL councillor, about Cecilia Malstrom have prompted calls for decisive action in his regard by the PL. Some regard this as a pious hope at best, given ‘Dr. Muscat’s stand in relation to the three-day onslaught on Malstrom’s FB page last week http://thaxwix.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-madness-recent-nationalevents-made.html .