As though we need to hear it again, BBC Sport leads today on study it commissioned into the amount of English footballers playing in the Premiership. It will inevitably be solid newspaper filler for the coming days, in place of those Euro 2008 wall charts we would be pinning up had, well, all number of [...]
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Sweden’s footballing immigrants
Posted in Football, tagged Alfonso Alves Sweden, Allsvenskran, Bo Nilsson, Football, Glenn Hysen, IF Elfsborg, James Keene, Jimmy Dixon, Roland Nilsson, Sweden, Swedish football on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Swedish football has long exported top players and managers to the rest of Europe, but there are signs that the trend is beginning to reverse.
This season Sweden’s top flight boasts more foreign players than ever before, all hoping to become stars in a new country just as the likes of Freddie Ljungberg and Zlatan Ibrahimović [...]
