trivia - premiership longest serving foreign player

[tali1]

Premiership's longest serving foreign player- who is it?

[stimmers]

Gudni Bergsson

[a boardman]

ryan giggs played in the first premiership season 1992 and is welsh

[dickymint]

Le Saux?

Edited: Nope it's Mark Schwarzer.

Edited by dickymint on Sunday 30th March 10:20

[Vee]

If Giggs doesn't count as foreign, then Brad Friedel ?

[RichBurley]

a boardman said:

ryan giggs played in the first premiership season 1992 and is welsh

And the Premier league is English, ergo Ryan giggs is the correct answer! Well done!

[tali1]

dickymint said:

Le Saux?

Edited: Nope it's Mark Schwarzer.

Edited by dickymint on Sunday 30th March 10:20

Mark Schwarzer is apparently the correct answer

[stimmers]

tali1 said:

dickymint said:

Le Saux?

Edited: Nope it's Mark Schwarzer.

Edited by dickymint on Sunday 30th March 10:20

Mark Schwarzer is apparently the correct answer

Could be right (im not sure how anyone deosn't know Le Saux is English), but till 2003 it was Gudni Bergsson

Fun fact: before his retirement this summer to become a lawyer, Bolton and Iceland defender Gudni Bergsson was the longest-serving foreign player in the Premiership

Edited by stimmers on Sunday 30th March 22:11

[BJG1]

Surely Roy Keane?

[dickymint]

stimmers said:

(im not sure how anyone deosn't know Le Saux is English)

Debateable as He and his parents were born in Jersey. Not part of Great Britain or the UK. Certainly not part of England.

[hornetrider]

BJG1 said:

Surely Roy Keane?

Um, if Giggs was playing when the Prem started and is still playing now, how can Keano who is now retired be a longer serving player than he?

[BJG1]

hornetrider said:

BJG1 said:

Surely Roy Keane?

Um, if Giggs was playing when the Prem started and is still playing now, how can Keano who is now retired be a longer serving player than he?

Because Giggs is British, hence not foreign, which'd be why I went for somebody Irish.

[hornetrider]

BJG1 said:

hornetrider said:

BJG1 said:

Surely Roy Keane?

Um, if Giggs was playing when the Prem started and is still playing now, how can Keano who is now retired be a longer serving player than he?

Because Giggs is British, hence not foreign, which'd be why I went for somebody Irish.

Mmmkay.... nice logic there

[RichBurley]

BJG1 said:

hornetrider said:

BJG1 said:

Surely Roy Keane?

Um, if Giggs was playing when the Prem started and is still playing now, how can Keano who is now retired be a longer serving player than he?

Because Giggs is British, hence not foreign, which'd be why I went for somebody Irish.

It's not a British league, it's an English league, with special invitation to 3 welsh clubs. Just like the Scottish league gives a special invtation to one English club.

[Vee]

Vee said:

If Giggs doesn't count as foreign, then Brad Friedel ?

Obviously nonsense !
I thought that Friedel signed for Liverpool around 94, seems it was much later. Also misread the question - assume it means longest serving at one Premiership club, not in the Premiership.

[a boardman]

Dwight Yorke played for aston villa when premiership first started, he had one season away in oz but now at sunderland.

so he might be the longest in the premiership for various clubs, aston villa, man united, blackburn, birmingham, sunderland

[stimmers]

dickymint said:

stimmers said:

(im not sure how anyone deosn't know Le Saux is English)

Debateable as He and his parents were born in Jersey. Not part of Great Britain or the UK. Certainly not part of England.

39 caps for England

[BJG1]

RichBurley said:

BJG1 said:

hornetrider said:

BJG1 said:

Surely Roy Keane?

Um, if Giggs was playing when the Prem started and is still playing now, how can Keano who is now retired be a longer serving player than he?

Because Giggs is British, hence not foreign, which'd be why I went for somebody Irish.

It's not a British league, it's an English league, with special invitation to 3 welsh clubs. Just like the Scottish league gives a special invtation to one English club.

So, this is England, not Scotland but a Scottish person living here would not be foreign.

[dickymint]

stimmers said:

dickymint said:

stimmers said:

(im not sure how anyone deosn't know Le Saux is English)

Debateable as He and his parents were born in Jersey. Not part of Great Britain or the UK. Certainly not part of England.

39 caps for England

So? Does that make him English? British?

[Jim Campbell]

Schwartzer ah i like that good to see an Aussie doing well abroard(he is a bit hot and cold though). For the one club i think Dennis Bergkamp holds the record.

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