Urban Hat€monger ?

I think the real blame is the premier league, and the clubs. Billions of pounds being thrown around and none of it going to lower league clubs or grass roots level. Why bother trying to bring through english talent when you have scouts & schools all over africa & south america. Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal don't give a flying fuck if their next midfield starlet is English or not, and why should they?
Until there's something in the rules about the number of english players in a team it's always going to be like this. It might not make the players better as such but it'll give them much more experience at a higher level.
It wasn't that long ago that players like Ian Wright & Stuart Pearce were in the England squad, and both those men came from Non league football.
And we reached Semi Finals with them in the squad.

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