O/T The great white hope

[Lasterman]

As soon as I found out she wasn't born in Britain like Mo Farah ect... I didn't want to know. Jo Durie Annabel Croft last two British born women tennis players who got to decent level I can think of. If you win a major still be the same on your birth certificate will tell you country you was born in to me that's your nationality.

Quite right. Let's take it a stage further because the point at which you drop out of your mothers nether regions isn't nearly strict enough. We need to go back to the conception - the beginning of life surely. So if you're the result of knee trembler on a long weekend in Benidorm, you can **** right off and put yourself down for the Spannish team.

[millertop]

[frogmiller]

I'd have hated my kids having to choose which country to represent if they were good at sport. It would have been their decision ultimately but I couldn't imagine them going through the French system and being funded by a French federation and them turning their backs on those federations to represent England or Britain. This is unless there was no way of representing France.

There is a young Goalkeeper at St Etienne who has been asked to represent France internationally but has refused saying that he wants to play for England.
What a risk he's taking but credit to him for believing in himself.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Apparently Ronaldo has got an Irish setter dog.

I hear he's agonising over the decision of playing for Northern Ireland or the Republic now that they've changed the rules

[MillersTime]

As soon as I found out she wasn't born in Britain like Mo Farah ect... I didn't want to know. Jo Durie Annabel Croft last two British born women tennis players who got to decent level I can think of. If you win a major still be the same on your birth certificate will tell you country you was born in to me that's your nationality.

That's because some people have the mentality to see what separates us whereas the majority look at what makes us connect. We are blessed to have such a talented young lady.

[MillersTime]

Apparently Ronaldo has got an Irish setter dog.

I hear he's agonising over the decision of playing for Northern Ireland or the Republic now that they've changed the rules

I know ROI aren't that good but surely they aren't down to calling up dogs?!

[great_fire]

The Great Eurasian hope would be more accurate.

Doing well though, the Canadians, Romanians, and Chinese must be unhappy.

The Canadians always seem to get the crappy end of the stick with this; Lennox Lewis, Greg Rusedski and Owen Hargreaves all gave them the bums rush.

[John2]

When I get into my older years, if I ever find myself obsessing over the nationality of an 18 year old athlete I'll be asking myself some serious questions.

[Townerslovechild]

I think we know what Grist is saying, I wonder if she was white and blonde would this thread even exist.
Well done Emma.

[gru]

What's difference between her & non-brits getting into this country by crossing channel on a dinghy or rest that get here. Message is coming ss once your here you are now British. Can't have one rule cause she's doing well at tennis & another for rest. They are all non-brits by country they were born in.