Ethnic English football players

[Creoda]

More notable old players who've bit the dust this year:

Roger Hunt MBE, 1966 World Cup Winner from Lancashire



Jimmy Greaves MBE, from London



Ron Flowers MBE, from South Yorkshire



Freddie Hill, from Sheffield


Paul Mariner, from Lancashire


Terry Cooper, from North Yorkshire



Peter Swan, from West Yorkshire


Bob Fulton, Australian Rugby League 'Immortal', from Cheshire



You can get a sense of how much Lancashire & Yorkshire have contributed to English football.

[Davy Jones's Locker]

Women's teams from England

It is curious how there are a lot fewer Black footballers in English female than male football.

That has been a controversial topic during the tournament England just hosted. Seems to be true though.

Spoiler!

17/23 of the squad for the UEFA Women's Euro tournament last month were ethnically English to my knowledge. Although of those; Daly, Walsh & Kelly could well have Irish ancestry. There were three black players and another trio had continental European ancestry in Lucy Bronze (Portuguese father), Lotte Wubben-Moy (Dutch father) & Alessia Russo (Sicilian grandfather).

The seventeen relevant to this thread listed by shirt number.


1) Mary Earps






3) Rachel Daly






4) Keira Walsh






5) Alex Greenwood






6) Millie Bright






7) Beth Mead






8) Leah Williamson






9) Ellen White






10) Georgia Stanway






11) Lauren Hemp






13) Hannah Hampton






14) Fran Kirby






16) Jill Scott






18) Chloe Kelly






19) Bethany England






20) Ella Toone






21) Ellie Roebuck




I can't say any of Bronze, Wubben-Moy or Russo particularly stand out from the rest though.

[Creoda]

That has been a controversial topic during the tournament England just hosted. Seems to be true though.

Spoiler!

17/23 of the squad for the UEFA Women's Euro tournament last month were ethnically English to my knowledge. Although of those; Daly, Walsh & Kelly could well have Irish ancestry. There were three black players and another trio had continental European ancestry in Lucy Bronze (Portuguese father), Lotte Wubben-Moy (Dutch father) & Alessia Russo (Sicilian grandfather).

The seventeen relevant to this thread listed by shirt number.


1) Mary Earps






3) Rachel Daly






4) Keira Walsh






5) Alex Greenwood






6) Millie Bright






7) Beth Mead






8) Leah Williamson






9) Ellen White






10) Georgia Stanway






11) Lauren Hemp






13) Hannah Hampton






14) Fran Kirby






16) Jill Scott






18) Chloe Kelly






19) Bethany England






20) Ella Toone






21) Ellie Roebuck




I can't say any of Bronze, Wubben-Moy or Russo particularly stand out from the rest though.

How awful for the Guardian readers that the England women's team are actually English...

[Tooting Carmen]

English players of fully British Isles origin who have been selected for the World Cup 2022 (as an aside, there don't seem to be as many Black players in the selection this time round compared to the norm over the last few years):

Jordan Pickford


Nick Pope


Aaron Ramsdale


Luke Shaw


John Stones


Harry Maguire


Eric Dier


Conor Coady


Ben White


Declan Rice


Jordan Henderson


Mason Mount


Conor Gallagher


Jack Grealish


Harry Kane


Phil Foden


James Maddison

[Creoda]

RIP Sir Bobby Charlton, an English hero

[Tooting Carmen]

RIP Sir Bobby Charlton, an English hero

Indeed.

[Creoda]

Other notable English footballers who've died in the last 12 months:

Tony Allen (Staffordshire)




David Armstrong (Co. Durham)




Trevor Francis (Devon)




Francis Lee CBE (Lancashire)




David Johnson (Liverpool)




Maurice Norman (Norfolk)