Are Foreign Players Holding Up Our Chances In International Football?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262629/Sepp-Blatter-England-win-World-Cup-unless-influx-foreign-players-brought-control.html

[TWR]

Why kick out the manager when it's 11 soft sods kicking the ball, If they loose the game no-matter who they are playing, reduce their wage, I'm afraid they will not get fat off my support!! better things to spend my money on.

[Mattk]

There is a case that the number of foreign players limits home grown players but then surely the cream will float to the top anyway?

We need to get some belief as we go into big games as we already count ourselves as the underdogs. I firmly believe that the team available to Sven had the qualities to be Europe and World beaters but as usual amounted to nothing.

[jno]

ah, keyplus, England's reign as cricket number 1 ended abruptly. They are currently number 2 and Australia are closing in fast.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/rankings/content/current/page/211271.html

[Duncer]

"I firmly believe that the team available to Sven had the qualities to be Europe and World beaters but as usual amounted to nothing."

They had several qualities, apart from one! Ball retention is vital at the very top level and the home nations fall down miserably at this, not to mention our poor technique. We need to overhaul our game entirely.