a foreign arse

An interesting note on tonight's match-up between Arsenal and Real Madrid: Real Madrid could very possibly field more Englishmen than Arsenal, given the fact that both Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole are out (there are only 5 Englishmen in the whole Arsenal team, and 3 of them are mainly reserves).

Take a look at the probable teams for tonight (Englishmen in bold):

Real Madrid: 1-Iker Casillas, 11-Cicinho, 4-Sergio Ramos, 18-Jonathan Woodgate, 3-Roberto Carlos; 16-Thomas Gravesen; 23-David Beckham, 5-Zinedine Zidane, 14-Guti, 10-Robinho; 9-Ronaldo

Arsenal: 1-Jan Lehmann; 27-Emmanuel Eboue , 28-Kolo Toure, 20-Philippe Senderos, 16-Matheiu Flamini; 7-Robert Pires, 19-Gilberto, 15-Cesc Fabregas, 8-Freddie Ljungberg; 14-Thierry Henry, 9-Jose Antonio Reyes, 11-Robin van Persie

Seems like even a top English team suffers the problem of too much foreign talent, ha!