Welsh FA comments

The problem in football had got worse over the past twenty years or so. Seem to recall the Germans hadn't done well in a couple of tournaments, and 'examined' they're coaching policy. The result was they found that they'd excluded a load of players that while they weren't German, qualified to play for them. If I remember correctly only 4 or 5 of their World Cup winning side were actually born in Germany. Belgium did the same a while back and look at them now.

FIFA activily supported the use of Foreign coaches when this was queried years back. They said it would penalise the developing nations to restrict them to appointing their own. Bringing European coaches in was supposed to help them compete and bring on their own coaches over time.

Surely the time has come for this to change. All players and coaches should qualify for that country.

Qualification should mean imo
- born in that country or either of the parents were.
- or moved to that country to live and spent minimum of 5 years there before the age of 16
- not represented any other country at a level over u16

Sure there would need to be tweaks, but it would be a starting point.

Right on cue up pops this bloke Aljaž Bedene, Slovenian tennis player who became a British tennis player and has now gone back to representing Slovenia.

If you are a Slovenian tennis fan (presume there are some) how do you feel, Slovenia wasn't good enough so you went to seek your fortune as a British person but now that hasn't worked out all of a sudden you want to be a Slovene again!

But it is an English man who has said it, can you be racist against your own race?

Simply refer to your passport, which refers to BRITISH nationality. On immigrating into many foreign countries a form has to be completed which includes your COUNTRY of origin. There is a clear distinction. Nationality refers to being a resident having gained citizenship, and thus a passport, whilst being English or Welsh, for example, refers to heritage (i.e. family blood line). Hence the term British Asian which reflects a British citizen who is proud of their Asian heritage.
In short, you can become British through residency, but heritage should dictate whether you are English, Welsh, or perhaps neither. Place of birth is irrelevant. A kitten born in a dogs home remains a cat.
Ryan Giggs has quoted “I am Welsh, 100 percent. End of story. Both my parents and all my grandparents are Welsh.”

I was under the impression that one of his grandparents was from Sierra Leone.

Ha ha, when they beat Belgium 3-1 in the Euros all their 3 goalscorers were born in England, so in my book that makes them English.

Maybe to you, but not to me. I was born in Chester, England and I'm a true Cestrian, otherwise I wouldn't be supporting one of the shittest teams ever . The cats and dogs analogy is a bit childish imo.

Please read again. Neither england or wales are nations, so nationality doesn’t come into it. Either’s nationality is BRITISH. 
In the case of many people who have parents who are English and Welsh then dual eligibility applies.
please note, being in a majority doesn’t make you right, it merely reflects a lot of people are wrong. Feel free to proudly announce your error as loudly as you want.

This is wrong on a number of levels. Britain came about by the uniting of the Scottish and English crowns and separate ruling classes of each state. Wales had already been conquered by the English and was not counted separately to the definition of 'England' at the time. Britain was then joined by Ireland in 1800 in a 'free' decision but one where it been conquered repeatedly by England (mainly in the south) and Scotland (mainly in the north) in the previous 900 years and where the 'Irish' ruling class was dominated by lords of English and Scottish orign, this created the legal entity of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland' in 1800, which lasted until the bulk of Ireland was finally liberated from British colonialism and the Irish Free State was formed, with the 6 out of the 9 counties of Ulster (the ones with Protestant majorities) remaining with Britain where we became 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland', or UK for short.

It is very clear that both culturally and legally we were and are a political union of different nations (underscored by the fact that Scotland has a completely different legal and education system to the rest of the UK, and always has done). Further proof of that is in the fact that our nationality is not 'UKish' is it? 'British' does have a resonance, particularly among older people with a link to the two world wars (knowing relatives that fought in both etc.)., as up until the 1950s 'British' and 'English' were interchangeable to describe the country, even when talking about Scottish or Welsh people, and where the wars had solidified a national identity across all the mainland of Britain (sadly for the NI unionists they have always been considered 'Irish' by everyone else and never 'British except by themselves in terms of identity, although they of course played a key role in fighting for Britain in both wars).


But for younger people 'British' is less of an identity compared to 'Scottish'. 'English', 'Welsh' etc. (this was shown in the Scottish independence referendum albeit with some exceptions) , although there is an important exception to this with a lot of people from BAME and immigrant communities who are more likely to self-identify with the term 'British'.


So while we have a legal and political union that has created the UK (for now, and until Ireland is finally reunited, which may well be one of the biggest positives of Brexit), and yes, we have UK passports, but below that we have nationalities based on the component parts of that political union. It is after all the reason we also have four separate national football teams within the UK, something that cannot be understood without acknowledging that we are a legal union of different nations in the wider UK state. And, to link it to the topic, as discrimination by nationality is linked to race discrimination under the 2010 Equality Act you can have a situation where discrimination by nationality can take place between UK citizens who are from the different nations of the union.

Wow this is illuminating could be the basis of a Thesis

In the absence of any punctuation or grammar, including the incorrect use of a capital for thesis, it is not apparent whether this is intended as sarcasm or not.

No semicolon or full stops in the above, so I take it you are the idiot referred to in your list.