Yannick Stopyra, that's a blast from the past

comment by Cinciwolf (U11551) posted 5 hours, 43 minutes ago
Bit confused to be honest.

Is he a Chelsea fan? Doesn't he hate the midlands? Why is he advertising it in his name?
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I quite like the Midlands - just not the Black Country bit of it!

And I hate my accent getting confused with it

Chelsea were best when every player had a name starting with H. Hollins, Houseman, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hosgood, Harris, maybe others that the clouds of time have allowed me to forget.

This sounds a bit ukipish

Sounds a bit EDLish

Which would fit right in with the average Chelsea thug in a train carriage.

It Won't be a Steam train like you're still on

comment by TheChameleonProject (U1847)
posted 14 minutes ago
It Won't be a Steam train like you're still on
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Yeah Unc. The key words are capitalised for extra sassiness.

Muto

Muto > Mutu

Muto doesn't like the bugle

No one likes Pundits Big Nose

Sushi

Bless you

Fantastic article, Chelsea just can't help to find ways to ruin football.

Nearly all slaves in Roman times were foreign.

It's only normal for nearly all slaves in Roman's times to be foreign.

We've always had a good representative of English players in the Roman era apart from this season when we only have two in the starting 11.

I'm sure that's something the club will want to address and are well aware of. Anyway as someone else pointed out a couple of other top PL teams fielded less English players last weekend than us so why are we being singled out?

Could it be because the OP is a non entity with a serious Chelsea obsession.

Vladiators

My opinion as another Wolves fan is that it the number of foreign players in the PL makes me much less inclined to watch it than a few years ago. It's not a Chelsea problem but a general problem.

I feel a detachment watching teams of foreign multi-millionaires who seem determined to change football to a non-contact sport.

I ask myself if we were bought by a billionaire who did an Abramovich would I not care and enjoy the success or would it spoil the love of my club by turning it into something "less real"? Do I prefer watching a number of our home grown youngsters battle for promotion or would I prefer to be a Chelsea or Man City? The trophies must be fantastic but what about the downside - the armchair fans, inflated prices, the club turning into a PLC rather than something I see as a love and a duty.

I can't answer those questions as we haven't been there.

How are you with neighbourhoods

It's all well and good saying more English players but in these FFP times when every penny has to be accounted for why would you pay for an overpriced English player when you can get a cheaper (and most likely better) foreign player.

English players are more expensive than players from abroad so if the FA or Premier League really want to address this problem then they're going to have to do something about the overinflated prices of English players.

We'd also see more English players bought by foreign clubs and getting fantastic experience of foreign leagues if that happened.

That's a fair point.

All I'm saying is that I don't have much interest in watching 2 teams of foreign players competing on Sky on Sunday afternoons.

Some people do - that's their choice.

The premier league is a victim if it's own success in terms of overinflated prices. Whilst there is such a chasm between the clubs at the top of the pyramid and the clubs at the bottom, with so much money in the game, lower clubs are always going to demand more for players that have come through their youth system so they are able to compete. This is true of foreign players clubs import too, whose value seems to increase as soon as they play regularly in the Premier League regardless of whether they improve in ability.

Unfortunately, this means clubs now look abroad a lot of the time for purchases, which only exacerbates the problem. I guess the only way it will change is to either decrease the number of foreign imports or evenly spread the money that now only the top clubs are getting in terms of TV rights etc. Neither of which are going to happen.

When Chelsea were lower league, the old division 1/ division 2 etc, days I never watched the top league either.

Nothing to do with foreign players, wages style or anything else. It was simply because my interest was Chelsea and they were in the 2nd division, the teams within that, the gams within that were what mattered.

Today I pay little but a passing attention to the Championship. Nothing to do with a lack of respect, style or foreign players, just simply a lack of interest. My interest is in the league we play in and the teams within that, be they Hull, Wigan, Norwich, Wolves as they come and go or your Man U, Arsenal or Liverpool's.

I remember when we both got promotion, going up as 1st and 2nd. I think the final match of the season we played each other at Molineux.