Focus on Transfers

Buying best of British a recipe for disaster

November 29, 2012
By Richard Jolly
(Archive)
Spain 5-4 England. Not, as might be supposed, a scoreline from the 1930s but a number generated by Sunday's stalemate between the European and English champions. When Rafa Benitez made his second substitution as Chelsea manager, there were five of his compatriots - starters Fernando Torres, Juan Mata and Cesar Azpilicueta, replacement Oriol Romeu and Manchester City's David Silva - on the pitch and a quartet of Brits: Ashley Cole, Joe Hart, James Milner and Gareth Barry.

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