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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/bayer-leverkusen-leon-bailey-england-12042341

News story claiming Leon Bailey can play for England due to having Grandparents holding British passports. (According to the Bundesliga website they have English passports!!!! https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/england-keen-on-leon-bailey-for-world-cup-bayer-leverkusen-winger-jamaica-473780.jsp). No mention of these Grandparents being born in England. If this was the case Bailey could play for Scotland too...

Surely this is the EFA and the English press not understanding the rules once again. This rule was changed after John Barnes was capped?

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He'd be off his head to choose Scotland. He's no allegiance to Scotland other than a technicality through a passport so I can't see him tripping over himself to make himself available to us and he's playing regularly in the Bundesliga so England will be aware of him. If he's any sense at all he'd wait for England to come along possibly Wales if he's looking to play at the highest international level

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