lol Intresting fact...

[Young £]

A little segment From Brian Reade's column in the mirror.

As a paid-up member of the League Against someone who turns his hairdryer up to max to drown out the Govan Growler's rants, there's no easy way of putting this.But Sir Alex's claim that Premiership clubs must be made to limit the amount of foreigners in their squads is spot on.And if Arsene Wenger can't see it, well, when has he ever seen anything that goes against the interests of his own empire? Its easy for Wenger to assume the moral high ground citing European laws, xenophobia, and his free market right to plunder every academy from Sao Paulo to Seville.But we all know that something has gone badly wrong in English Football's supply chain which needs to be urgently addressed. Yet again this week there were more Scots taking part in the Champions League (14: 7 for Celtic, 7 for Rangers, 1 for Man U) than Englishmen (11: 3 for L'Pool, Chelsea, Man U and 1 for Le' Arse and Celtic)Scotland has a population of 5 million. England has 50 million. At a time when English football has never been wealthier how come young Scottish players have a far superior chance of playing at the highest level?Isit any wonder Scotland's qualification from a Euro Championship group containing Italy and France is still in their hands, while England's qualification from a much weaker one isn't?Or that Italy are world champions and England are not even nearly men, when 74% of Serie A players are natives, while in the Premiership it is less than 40%.

England is definitly losing, them U.E.F.A. quotas are gonna come into place real soon

[Guest I.B.Blackman]

We need to win this season thenbut technically most of our plateys are uk citizens nw

[Guest ya_mum_and_ya_dad]

Yeah it not right but footballs a businesss first and a game second. England don't look like qualifying for the euros and could an England best 11 really put out a better 11 than United, Chelsea or Arsenal? very debateable. Arsenal are the scapegoats but when you see that they're killing it in the bussiness sense while United and Chelsea with high quotas of English players are paying 23, 17, 16 Million respectively for SWP, Hargreeves and Carrick while 10,?, (but less than hargreeves you would think) 10, are being paid for Hleb, Mascherno and alonso then the problems with the English transfer market clearly. Celtic and Ranger can't draw the big big international player so have to get the best of local talent and theres an argument that if them 2 get all the best scottish players then they're killing of the scottish league just to benefit the national team. DUMB ARGUMENT comparing scottish to English but i do agree that An English team should have more than 1 English player in it but at the moment its not possible without paying stupid amounts of money.

[MEIRELES.]

Wenger = Biggest prick in footballing history.

[Gundam]

Like i said, if an english team don't have atleast 3 english players, playing a major role, They won't win the league. FACT.

[Guest ya_mum_and_ya_dad]

Like i said, if an english team don't have atleast 3 english players, playing a major role, They won't win the league. FACT.

Arsenal unbeaten run. cole, campbell and ?

[Gundam]

Like i said, if an english team don't have atleast 3 english players, playing a major role, They won't win the league. FACT.

Arsenal unbeaten run. cole, campbell and ?

Keown and Parlour, played major roles in that winning side.

[TF/S4DK]

Cant beat European law tho...

[Guest ya_mum_and_ya_dad]

Like i said, if an english team don't have atleast 3 english players, playing a major role, They won't win the league. FACT.

Arsenal unbeaten run. cole, campbell and ?

Keown and Parlour, played major roles in that winning side.

Them man weren't still playing then were they? if they were then my bad. But where the f*ck was Parlour getting games when Pires, Ljungberg and Wiltord were there?

[Guest ya_mum_and_ya_dad]

Cant beat European law tho...

Exactly, but there must be some way to get around this.

[TF/S4DK]

Like i said, if an english team don't have atleast 3 english players, playing a major role, They won't win the league. FACT.

Arsenal unbeaten run. cole, campbell and ?

Keown and Parlour, played major roles in that winning side.

Them man weren't still playing then were they? if they were then my bad. But where the f*ck was Parlour getting games when Pires, Ljungberg and Wiltord were there?

Parlour & Keown played. Wiltord & Keown where being phased out of the team at the end of that season & Parlour then left cos of the situation with his divorce.

[TF/S4DK]

There is no way around EU law.Which is why Maschereno was allowed to play for Liverpool, despite it being his third club in a season...Its why at the end of the day Wenger doesnt care...May I add that by including this rule wouldn't guarantee the national team playing better it, it would however guarantee a even more inflated English transfer market and a even more inflated English player's ego.

[Lucarelli]

REAL TALK.

[Guest Ryan]

Wenger is a genius.

[Turkish]

Englands youth just aint cutting it and thats why over the years they are being edged out. If you look at youngsters from Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Portugal, France etc. and compare them to the up and coming players from England they are a whole few classes below so what do you go for? Talent or nationality?And on top of that when a good young english player does crop up they are tagged with ridiculous prices (Rooney - 30 million, Walcott 12 million).Until the english youth system change the way they scout players those aforementioned countries will continue in providing the best talent in the world.

[McLovin' Jones]

Wait a minuteEngland ain't won jack since 1966...To my knowledge, foreigners have been 'flooding' the Premiership since the mid 90's but yet, people want to blame the influx of foreign TALENT for the poor performances of the national team.f*ck OUTTA HERE...This is why I'd stay in this country for LIFE and not support the national team at all. The inability for the FA to produce its own talent is disgusting. If anything, the standard of football has risen DRAMATICALLY since foreigners became prominent in this league.

[Guest Ryan]

That's right Mike.Before it was that there were too many Irish and Scottish players in England stopping English talent coming through

[McLovin' Jones]

That's right Mike.Before it was that there were too many Irish and Scottish players in England stopping English talent coming through

LMAO...

[anelka]

Yep deffo need to introduce a limit on foreign playersFor every Pires we have 5 Ziegler's or Stalteri's

[McLovin' Jones]

Yep deffo need to introduce a limit on foreign playersFor every Pires we have 5 Ziegler's or Stalteri's

Same way, for every Rooney, we have 5/6 Jon Stead's or Dave Nugent's or Justin Hoyte's...

[gunnerman]

A little segment From Brian Reade's column in the mirror.

there were more Scots taking part in the Champions League (14: 7 for Celtic, 7 for Rangers, 1 for Man U)

England is definitly losing, them U.E.F.A. quotas are gonna come into place real soon

Man cant even count.Still, if England didnt overprice all their decent players Wenger would obviously get them. Arsenal are clever with money not gonna pay a player a bonus jus cos of their nationality.

[anelka]

Yep deffo need to introduce a limit on foreign playersFor every Pires we have 5 Ziegler's or Stalteri's

Same way, for every Rooney, we have 5/6 Jon Stead's or Dave Nugent's or Justin Hoyte's...

Its the same for every other league in the world, for every Del Piero theres 5 Corradi's etc so i dnt get ur pointThe majority of players in the ENGLISH league should be ENGLISH

[Guest Ryan]

Difference is those 5 Corradis don't cost up to £10m....

[McLovin' Jones]

Yep deffo need to introduce a limit on foreign playersFor every Pires we have 5 Ziegler's or Stalteri's

Same way, for every Rooney, we have 5/6 Jon Stead's or Dave Nugent's or Justin Hoyte's...

Its the same for every other league in the world, for every Del Piero theres 5 Corradi's etc so i dnt get ur pointThe majority of players in the ENGLISH league should be ENGLISH

What ya mean, you don't get my point?YOU made it...YOU'RE the one who made the point, that for every gifted foreigner, you get a few mediocre ones. Which perplexes me because of the sheer obviousness of this. That's why they're GIFTED because they're not common. Same way, for every Steven Gerrard, there's a few Sean Davis's or a few Michael Brown's....Now, in THEORY, you ARE right. An English league should be made up of mostly Englishmen but Arsenal aren't your typical team. Why do you think that, the higher you go up in terms of the league tables in regards of the top teams, the more foreigners you get? It's because for a TOP team to have the be a TOP team, they have to have the best team available. Now, in regards to the best English teams, we have Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool & Arsenal so in theory, they should attempt to get the best English talent. Now, each team have different policies in the way they get that talent. Man Utd & Chelsea just buy because they can afford to and they believe that's best way to go about it. Liverpool, well. I can't remember the last time they BOUGHT a major English player in like, the last 10 years. And with Arsenal, Wenger believes it just isn't right and all we have to do is look at his history. Most of time, he's been right to go buy foreign.But people believe its right to appease xenophobic football analysts and delusional footballing officials ahead of what's good for their club.Wenger owes NOTHING to English football. Hell, he damn near helped revolutionise it.Club>>>>>Country....