Do You Have to be English to play for England?

A week in Sports can be a really long one and this week Jack Wilshere made comments which got a few people talking. Jack Wilshere is one of our current generation of young English talents and this week he waded in on the Januzaj debate on whether he should be allowed to play for England.

This is what Jack Wilshere said - We have to remember what we are. We are English. We tackle hard, are tough on the pitch and are hard to beat.
"We have great characters. You think of Spain and you think technical but you think of England and you think they are brave and they tackle hard. We have to remember that.

"The only people who should play for England are English people. If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain."

Quite controversial but I can see where Jack is coming from, you're in the best form of your life and someone comes and takes your place. It's not the best but sometimes you have to just get on with it.

On another view, other sports such as cricket and athletics have people starring for our contries who have been born in places like America, South Africa and Kenya. Think of people like Mo Farah, Kevin Pietersen, Tiffany Porter. They aren't English but have helped deliver the goods in their chosen sports so what's the problem? If they can do it, so can football.

Great sporting moments such as Kevin Pietersen and England winning the Ashes and Mo Farah winning double Gold at the London Olympics. Imagine they were denied the chance to represent Britain/England?
We Can Argue, We Can Agree but if they deliver success for England then everyone's happy

It's not hard but should we allow players who aren't English to play for England?
Whats your view guys? I'd love to know