Arsenal Fans

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I know it's not the fault of the fans,but I do think that there should be a minimal ammount of English players in a club.


It's why our international team is so crap. We just don't have the selection that we would have if all prem clubs had say,a 50% English squad. It's never going to happen,unless we get the sun on the campaign. (not a bad idea as it goes)

simply not true.
tell me when England had a decent team in your entire lifetime.
truth is, england have been shite for over 40 years now and it's got fukk all to do with foreigners in the premiership.
we had very few foreign players in our league in the 70s and 80s and still were way off being challengers for anything.
in the 90s we started to use this foreigners excuse, but to me it's just that, an excuse.
as Trevor Brooking pointed out it's got far more to do with the poor way in which we train our players from schoolboy age.
we put them into copetative matches too young and dont develop young players' technique.
that combined with football not being the no.1 sport at all comprehensive schools in the country (alot play rugby as the first choice winter sport ffs!) means that as a nation, we simply are not good enough.
every world cup or euro championships we build England up to have a great chance of winning and when we are shit and get knocked out early (yet again), we blame "foreigners in the premiership". truth of the matter is England just arent good enough.

[kai]

alot play rugby as the first choice winter sport ffs.

Oh how that used to piss me off at our school!!!!!!!!!!