[spireitematt]

And there are far more folk queer than would ever admit it.

And several of them are professional footballers.

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I would have expected Sinnott to be good enough in the National League. He was good enough at Halifax. Clearly Jack Lester didn't think much of him and Martin Allen didn't want him from Day One. I wonder what happened. It's not as if he didn't have someone in football to advise him - his dad knows the game and its ups and downs.

What chance is there if you don't come from a non-football background and something goes awry? Where next, if anywhere for Jordan. It'd be a laugh if Halifax step in ...... in view of their current position. (That'd be egg on our face.)

A lot of players who come from a non-football background either drop down to semi-professional or amateur or they fall out the game altogether.

I know several people who played for Football League clubs at youth level but never made it. One person I know played for Bury at youth level then went to Sheffield Wednesday but then got released as they said he was too small to be a striker.

Yes Matt so do I. We used to have a team full of them when I ran a team ..... including Bob Newton and Richard Dawson who played at Chesterfield ....... and in the reserve team because he really didn't want to play competitively again a man who played a full season in a promotion-winning season for Crystal Palace and then went to Everton BUT none of them had a dad who'd played top level and only Tony, the Crystal Palace one seemed almost deliberately to let his talent wane. Jordan Sinnott was out of the Development Stage, true he had to jump from National League to EFL but he should have been a made player and now he seems to have un-made himself.

Well I've been reading an article today about how Brexit will affect British football and the Pro EU remainers think it will be a terrible thing and they pretty much say if we do fully leave the EU it will mean the end of the Premier League. A lot of people think it would be good because it would mean we can produce more home grown players which would be good for the England team especially after we had a successful World Cup. It will mean more home grown players in the top 4-6 teams in the Premier League, more players coming through youth and academy sides and it could mean more British managers in the game at the top flight. The only downfall will be transfer fees and agent fees.

In LA Liga teams have a quota on how many non-EU players they are allowed in the squad and starting XI. Barcelona got in trouble last month because they had too many non-EU players in their squad and were told those players wouldn't be allowed to play in the Spanish Super Cup. The Bundesliga used to have the same ruling but that was lifted. The Premier League must have a squad of 25 players and 8 of those players must be home-grown so 17 of those can be foreign. The home-grown rule is a weird one because it doesn't mean that a home-grown player has to be born in that country. If Arsenal sign a 15 year old Spanish centre-forward and he went to school here and came through the youth/academy sides into the first team he will be known as a home-grown player. Cesc Fabregas, Victor Moses, Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku and Hector Bellerin are known as home-grown players.

The Premier League has the highest percentage of foreign players of any league in Europe.

England Premier League 69.2%
Cyprus First Division 57.1%
Belgium Jupiler Pro League 55.8%
Portugal Liga NOS 55.6%
Italy Serie A 55.5%
England Championship 50.8%
Scotland Scottish Premiership 50.5%
Luxembourg BGL Ligue 50.4%
Germany 1. Bundesliga 49.2%
Switzerland Super League 48.6%

There is 65 different nationalities in the Premier League which is the most diverse league in Europe but the majority of players who play in the Premier League are Spanish or French.