That's one team

Look at the other top European leagues and invariably the best teams are all built around players of that nationality. Without checking, I would be surprised if English players made more than 100 appearances for Man City in total this season. More for Chelsea perhaps, but still relatively few. There's the problem - nothing new.

Posted By: King on June 20th 2014 at 10:03:33

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What Ingerlund needs (Other Football) - King, Jun 20, 09:24:42
- The reality is this tournament was always going to come too soon. Hodgson has tried (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 20, 09:43:01
  - And I bet we'll be saying the same thing in two years' time (Other Football) - King, Jun 20, 09:49:08
    - Well yes, but they'll have 2 years more experience in all forms of the game and the core (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 20, 09:58:01
    - a lot of them did 'star' for Liverpool (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:54:51
      - indeed. As we saw last night from Uruguay. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 10:05:16
      - That's one team (Other Football) - King, Jun 20, 10:03:33
        
        Whereas Milner plays regularly for Man City and is vilified by England fans (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Jun 20, 10:18:57
        
        Arsenal probably ha (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 10:05:10
        
        ve more than Chelsea (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 10:06:26
- My complex analysis of last night: (Other Football) - APB, Jun 20, 09:34:18
  - Rooney should definitely have had two (Other Football) - duke of york, Jun 20, 09:36:49
    - Grant Holt would have scored that (Other Football) - Old Git, Jun 20, 09:40:17
- The thing is though... (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 20, 09:32:25
  - Because they have better players than us (Other Football) - King, Jun 20, 09:46:19
    - BUt why are their players better than us? Similar population sizes. (Other Football) - phrankin, Jun 20, 09:56:14
  - Faciliites, facilities, faciliities. (Other Football) - APB, Jun 20, 09:37:06
    - Well taking cricket as an example, private schools have ex pros as coaches (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 20, 10:03:11
      - Coaches are part of the facilities. (n/m) (Other Football) - APB, Jun 20, 10:06:58
        
        ok, if you insist. (n/m) (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 20, 10:11:45
    - See i'm not sure about this, how good are the facilities in Uruguay? is it more a social (Other Football) - megson, Jun 20, 09:49:04
      - Hence I wrote more advanced, wealthier societies. (Other Football) - APB, Jun 20, 10:08:20
      - parents here won't let their kids play outside any more? (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:53:13
        
        I think that's part of it yes, kids play inside for a variety of reasons now. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Jun 20, 09:54:58
        
        So our paedos are to blame (n/m) (Other Football) - duke of york, Jun 20, 09:58:30
        
        or our irrational, media-fuelled, out-of-proportion fear of peadophiles. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 20, 10:12:23
        
        Indeed. I doubt there are actually any more paedophiles than there used to be (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 10:17:53
    - My German cousin went to Seattle on a football scholarship for a year (Other Football) - Huge Small, Jun 20, 09:44:56
    - I was typing facilities a bit too quickly there... (n/m) (Other Football) - APB, Jun 20, 09:37:50
  - Youth facilities (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:36:12
    - Well, youth coaching i'd say, Germany and Spain have something Like ten times as many qual (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 20, 09:49:28
    - Poorer countries also tend to breed players with more desire (Other Football) - duke of york, Jun 20, 09:42:09
      - ^^^^^ He's got the answer. We need a FIFA world cup, we might win that. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Jun 20, 09:49:47
        
        you say but if there was one I bet it'd turn out we were rubbish (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:59:54
      - and schools who let their tennis courts rot (n/m) (Other Football) - Huge Small, Jun 20, 09:47:56
        
        they should be turned into football pitches anyway (n/m) (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 20, 09:56:23
        
        If they turned them into anything it would be a bonus (n/m) (Other Football) - Huge Small, Jun 20, 10:00:50
        
        Ah. Winter breaktime football. On the tennis courts. With a tennis ball. (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:56:23
      - how many of those countries listed in the OP are much poorer than us though? (Other Football) - mr carra, Jun 20, 09:45:27
- We have a very successful national league and a decent population size (Other Football) - phrankin, Jun 20, 09:32:02

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