Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Interracial Premier League?

And so the transfer window for the english clubs ends on the 31st. Apparently, there are still some clubs waiting to sign new players for their teams. A quick glance at the composition of each team, i.e. the racial profiles that make up each one, we can see them gradually becoming teams of mixed races. even managers are of different nationalities!!! With people coming from Ukraine, Brazil, Czech, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro and even the Ivory Coast (of course there are more countries involved than what i mentioned), i begin to think, is it still authentically ENGLISH? apparently not. Just look at this:

Chelsea have (from L to R) Drogba of Ivory Coast, Robben of Holland, Shevchenko of Ukraine, Carvalho of Portugal, and Captain Ballack of Germany.


Next, Liverpool have Alonso of Spain, Paletta of Argentina, Kewell of the Soccerroos, and Garcia, again from Spain.

Third, Arsenal have Czech's Rosicky, Holland's Van Persie, German GK Lehmann, Swiss' Senderos and Ljungberg from Sweden.

Finally, ManYoo have the Italian Rossi, Dutch GK Van der Sar, Portugal's Ronaldo, Vidic from Serbia and the Korean, Park.

Which leads me to my second question, what does 'ENGLISH Premier League' mean anyway? Is it...

a) football competition that's generally for the brits? apparently not, given that they only form a small fraction of the premiership's worldwide scope of fans.

b) football competition made up generally OF brits? perhaps. but as i deduced earlier, the EPL's slowly becoming IPL (please refer to the blog title) or

c) none of the above? (So what is it, really?)

PS Maybe it simply means, the league born on English soil and was left open for the domination of other nationals.

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