In case you didn't know, in the current Cricket ICC World Cup Ireland, ranked 11th out of the 14 teams partaking, have already beaten Bangladesh in the warm up last week, and they beat the West Indies when they met for their first group match yesterday.
And according to expert commentary on the BBC last night, they will probably beat England as well if they get through Pool B and meet England in the next round.
This is what happens in the top professional division of many team sports in England, peopled as they are by foreigners. Which is why England can never win a football cup as not enough English players are permitted to play in their national top division to get the requisite experience. And why Ireland were able to beat them last time they met them in the Cricket World Cup and could beat them again, as all the Ireland cricket team play in the top county teams in England, South Africa and Australia.
In the top division of football in Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil most of the players are domestic. ONLY in England is it the case that most of the
players in the top division are foreign.
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