He said the right things but until we go back to limiting the amount of foreign players in the league, it's not going to happen, add to that the ridiculous price of English players which is why we're swamped with average foreigners. They put a list up of teams with English players starting on the weekend. Newcastle 1 player, Man City 2. If I'm not mistaken we had 5, Davies, Chester, Hudds, Livermore & Graham. They didn't mention us with 5 but did with Cardiff & Man Utd.
We have had more British players in our first XI and bench than any other Prem club so far apparently. Though that might have included ROI as well.
Hoddle wanted the job on the condition he would have the best players available to him for the tournaments England U21 played instead of said players getting a call up to the national side playing a friendly. They couldn't give him that promise. Anybody know what happened to Appleton though? He seemed to be getting it and was there to watch Hodgson's night as U21 manager.
What Hoddle wants seems fair to me, considering they usually just sit on the bench when called up to the senior team...
If that's true, that's a disgrace. You don't see Spain, Germany or Brazil not allowing players to play in youth tournaments. They actually take their strongest teams possible, i am sure Spain even took three world cup winners one year. I don't get why we think its a bad idea letting them go, or is it the clubs who don't allow us to take them?
I think it's a lot to do with the clubs not wanting players injured, even these WC qualifiers, you just have to look at players pulling out, I wouldn't be surprised if McG & Boyd hadn't pulled out because they know where they get paid & Scotland can't qualify so why risk anything?
I don't buy this to many foreigners in the Premier League. We didn't qualify for a international tournament between the 1970 world up and Euro 1980. The English league wasn't full of foreigners then.
Nope, it's because for most of the mid-seventies we had a **** manager who only did as well as he did because he fixed loads of matches... I think the fact we didn't replace many of the '66 and '70 players such as Banks, Moore and Charlton straight away probably didn't help. For example, Keegan didn't hit his peak until the late 70s, if he had hit it a few years earlier we probably would have qualified for one of those tournaments.
True up to a point. There wasn't the amount of foreigners from outside the UK but there were a lot of players who didn't qualify to play for England. George Best and a host of Scots for a start. Liverpool fielded teams with not a player in who qualified to play for England, they were all Scots, Irish or Welsh. All the leading teams had Scots as main players. Which of course leads to the other question, what the hell has happened with Scotland as it isn't the case now.
Following on from that, I thought I'd have a look at the qualifying for Euro 72, WC 74, Euro 76 and WC 78, and it is quite interesting. In 72 we went out in the playoffs to eventual winners West Germany. In 74, we came close to qualifying, but were stopped by a 'clown'. In 76 we finished second in the qualifying group behind eventual winners Czechoslovakia. And in 78, we finished second on goal difference to Italy in our group.
i thought there was a restructuring at schoolboy level already planned ? Arn't the FA taking the Spanish approach ? As for the world cup im not overly bothered , it wont change my life any way and for quite some time the players representing our Country have on the whole been twats .
Huddle was right to turn it down, if he wasn't going to be able to pick the players he needed, that's exactly why appointing Southgate will change nothing.
Wage cap, funding going back into grass roots, foreign player limit. Force clubs to play English players will will in turn force them to improve their youth facilities. At the end of the day it depends what the FA, PL and FL want. A sound nation team and youth infrastructure, or TV money and they hype that comes with Sky.
Well, seeing as someone from the ROI is not British why would they be included in the number of British players? Presumably history wasn't one of your stronger subjects. And what has the number of British players got to do with the England team? They can no more play for England than someone from Brazil,Germany or Spain.
Interesting article in the Guardian about his role in bringing about the Premier League , so he's not quite the innocent in all this! http://www.theguardian.com/football.../2013/sep/04/greg-dyke-premier-league-history
Dyke is an utter ****. He declared the BBC to be 'hideously white' and ruined it. Now he's saying the Prem is 'hideously non English'. What a devious meanly-mouthed turd.
