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BoyBrumby · 08-01-2013, 02:41 PM

From the BBC.

His career ending injury happened when playing for England too.

It's a farce, obviously, and he'll doubtless be allowed to stay, but that it's ever come to this is insulting.

Whatever one thinks of the laxity of union's eligibility rules, if a chap is English enough to play for the country he's surely English enough to live here.

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BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,629	England test player threatened with deportation from UK From the BBC. His career ending injury happened when playing for England too. It's a farce, obviously, and he'll doubtless be allowed to stay, but that it's ever come to this is insulting. Whatever one thinks of the laxity of union's eligibility rules, if a chap is English enough to play for the country he's surely English enough to live here. __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads