Football Trivia question

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Name the 12 non-British/Irish players who played in the opening weekend of the first ever Premiership season.

I kind of stumbled across this one so can't be 100% sure of the authenticity; it's possible there may be more than 12. I'd be surprised if many people get double figures (excluding anyone who's seen this before / cheats, of course!).

I'll post some clues for missing names tomorrow evening if it's not been cracked by then.


edit: Names got so far:

Ronnie Rosenthal
Peter Schmeichel
Anders Limpar
John Jensen
Andrei Kanchelskis
Eric Cantona
Roland Nilsson
Peter Ndlovu (the mystery 13th name!)

Here's some clues to the remaining names:

#1 Evertonian who would be a Scrabble player's dream.
#2 If a certain Bond girl supported Arsenal, this is what she'd be called.
#3 (Allegedly) has a lot in common with Bruce Grobellar ;)
#4 Let in more goals in a single Premiership match than any other keeper
#5 Dutch centrehalf, probably the least well known of all the names
 
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Pigeon_Killer said:
Only other foreign players from Liverpool I can think of would be Grobbelaar, Bjornebye and Torben Picnic although I don't think they played much.
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Maybe Grob, think the other two are too modern; Bjornebye certainly is.

Kanchelskis?

EDIT: Tony Dorigo; English or Aussie?
 
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Kanchelskis and Cantona, yes.
Dorigo was capped prior to the Premiership starting so in my view he is English for the purposes of this question.
 
Peter Ndlovu

And...

Hmmm... Bosnich and Yorke played for Villa that season, but I'm pretty sure Bossie didn't start regularly until later in the season, and Yorke was in and out of the team at that stage.

Um...

Efan Ekoku was born in England, but played for Nigeria, so he probably doesn't count. Or maybe he does?
 
Hmmmm. It seems I've been misinformed as Peter Ndlovu wasn't on the list of 12. So that makes at least 13 :)
Regarding players who were born in UK/EIRE, unless they were capped for other nations prior to the Premiership starting then they don't count.
 
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