Hi Enigma,
Well blaming foreign players for the decline of the England football team is certainly the popular answer these days. But England's decline seems to date from around 1966, and not from around 1990 when the increase in foreign football players in England really began.
I believe that the real problem is football scouting in England. A few weeks ago Harry Redknapp asked "where are the estate kids ?" And the answer is playing on the estates that none of our cowardly football scouts will visit. But the estates are where the best kids football is played in England.
English football scouts stick to scouting school football only, but kids of poor and minority families are excluded from schools and from school football teams. They are the kids with the real football passion and fire that English football needs, but are ignored by our awful footbal scouts !
English football really needs better scouting, but that issue is being ignored. Until we get better scouting buying-in poor foreign kids from Africa and South America seems the only other practical way to keep up Premiership football standards ?!
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