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" Vinnie Jones has said that England has lost its identity and is &amp;quot;past its sell-by date&amp;quot;. The footballer-turned-actor told Radio Times that he also blames &amp;quot;foreign players&amp;quot; for diving in the English game.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s nothing to come back to here,&amp;quot; said Jones, who was born in Hertfordshire, played football for Wales via a grandparent and now lives in Los Angeles. &amp;quot;To me, England is past its sell-by date. It&amp;#039;s not the country I grew up in. It&amp;#039;s a European country now.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;If someone blindfolded you and put you on a plane in LA, and you landed at Heathrow and they took it off, you wouldn&amp;#039;t have a clue where you were.&amp;quot; He added of immigration: &amp;quot;I just think we should get our own house in order before we open our doors. It&amp;#039;s mind-boggling to me.&amp;quot;  Jones said that he buys Walkers and Monster Munch crisps by the box each month, and watches more Premier League football on TV in the US than he could in the UK. On diving in football, Jones said: &amp;quot;Yeah, well, that rolling around, that&amp;#039;s the foreign players. &amp;quot;I said it all 15 years ago, that diving would creep in, and also that the England team would suffer, because none of these foreign managers would buy English players. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all happening, just like I said it would. The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they&amp;#039;re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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