Said with more than a touch of Professor Hubert Farnsworth enthusiasm.... Players at English Clubs have scored more goals so far at Brazil 2014 than those based in any other nation: England 21 (Oscar, Van Persie, Beausejour, Bony, Sturridge, Fellaini, Jedinak, Suarez, Rooney, Giroud, Sissoko, Odemwingie, Nani, Fernandinho, Hernandez, Torres, Mata, Fer) Germany 20 (Robben, Mehmedi, Ibisevic, Muller, Hummels, Brooks, Olic, Perisic, Madzukic, Xhaka, Gotze, Son, Koo, Matip) Spain 16 (Neymar, Alonso, Sanchez, Seferovic, Benzema, Messi, Feghouli, Vargas, Brahimi, Guardado) Italy 9 (Armero, Gervinho, Honda, Marchisio, Balotelli, Mertens, Dzemaili, Klose) France 8 (Rodriguez, Cavani, Ayew, Matuidi, Valbuena, Origi) Mexico 5 (Peralta, Valencia, Marquez) USA 4 (Cahill, Dempsey) Portugal 4 (Quintero, Varela, Slimani, Halliche) Holland 4 (De Vrij, Memphis, Ruiz*) Brazil 3 (Valdivia, Aranguiz*, Fred) Russia 2 (Urena, Kerzhakov) Argentina 1 (Gutierrez) Belgium 1 (Duarte) South Korea 1 (Lee Keun-ho) Greece 1 (Campbell*) Honduras 1 (Costly) UAE 1 (Gyan) Turkey 1 (Jones) Tunisia 1 (Djabou) Australia 1 (Villa) Own goals: Spain 1 (Marcelo) Honduras 1 (Valladares) Germany 1 (Kolasinac) * Ruiz is still officially a Fulham player but has been on loan in Holland, Aranguiz has been playing in Brazil but is officially an Udinese player, and Arsenal's Campbell has spent the season on loan in Greece.
If you remove the goals scored for each club by players actually from the country concerned i think you begin to see one of England's problems...
