Thinking about the OP. It's spot on, as you'd expect from Phil.
But there's another group that's just as bad. They're those who would dismiss a foreign player having never seen them, while advocating British players purely because of their nationality. Normally couched in terms of the usual 'doesn't like it up him' and 'wet Tuesday night at the Britannia' shite.
The funny thing is (as we saw on here re: Downing) that if they were honest, they'd admit they've hardly seen the player play apart from games against us.
I even saw someone recently (on my facebook in fact) say that Aguero would fail because he's 'not tough enough'. Jesus fucking wept, the bloke is a bulldog.
For my sins I post on a Reds group on LinkedIn and it's full of these xenophobic twats.