FOR the third year running three English sides have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.
English football dominance at club level is so great that world ruling body Fifa wants to rewrite EU employment laws to limit how many foreigners can be on a team.
When Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal kick off in the semis it would be hard to pick 11 English players from ALL the starting line-ups. We've tried it.

But it was English sailors, soldiers, railway engineers and academics of Victorian England who took football around the world.

That’s why there are clubs called RIVER PLATE and Boca JUNIORS in Argentina and GRASSHOPPERS and YOUNG BOYS in Switzerland.
After the FA issued its first laws of the game in 1863, English railway workmen took a set to Argentina. They formed Buenos Aires FC in 1865.