| it isn't just arsenal that have limited no's of english players, it has developed into an epidemic, in a newspaper recently only aston villa have enough english players to field an english eleven and that would struggle in the prem, this is a serious problem as talented foreigners are cheaper in the short term and are slightly better technicly than english youngsters so don't need so much training to bring them up to scratch. What doesn't help is that any talented british youngster is snapped up and put in the reserves of the big teams and this imo stifles their development as to develop they need to play competive football to really develop this means regular first team action not five minutes every cup game, until this practice stops we are going to continue to see brilliant individual players who can't play together and will ultimately bring english football down and down and the one off non qualifacation could easily become a reality rather than a blip. |