Dan wrote:ResurrectionRooney wrote:Dan wrote:ResurrectionRooney wrote:Dan wrote:
Currently the holder of a British passport, has an English parent and is eligible for the English national team.
He is a Jamaican, he should play for Jamaica, that's what his mother wants, if you want to bring parentage into it. Fucking Manuel Almunia is eligible for a British Passport and to play for any of the home nations , does that make him English?
Yes. If that is what he believes he is.
And, I don't believe that nationality is defined by 'what a parent wants'. I'm saying that his father is English. Therefore, Sterling has English parentage. Therefore, he himself is English.
Please tell me you aren't one of these morons that define nationality as place of birth and nothing else? Because surely, an intellectual like wouldn't be that retarded?
What if he just says he is because he has no chance of making it into the Spanish team? We both know what will happen with this Sterling guy, if he turns out to be any good he'll shun the country of his birth, and if he turns out to be crap he'll go any play for Jamaica.
Nationality isn't defined solely by place of birth, but in sport it should be, because footballers whore themselves around, and you end up with people like Andy Townsend captaining Ireland, and Tony Cascarino inventing imaginary relatives, all because they're too crap to play for their country of birth, or arseholes like that Eoin Morgan, not playing for Ireland and playing for England instead because England pay him more.
So, despite Raheem Sterling spending 15 years of his life in this country, a significant amount higher than that in Jamaica, he is not English?
Correct.
