Will the USA one day win the World Cup in football whilst England fails to make the group stages?
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Richard Dorman January 2004 Will the USA one day win the World Cup in football whilst England fails to make the group stages? Almost 65% of the football players in the English Premiership are not English, so clearly only 35% of homegrown players are keeping the Premiership English. There are only two English players that play in other countries, which are in contention for the English National team. This means that there are only 200 topflight players that the English selection committee can choose from. How can we win a major cup or championship with this small figure to select from? In 1966, the year England won the World Cup, the number of Non-English players playing in the Premiership, was around half of what it is in 2004. Is there a connection between these figures and the poor performances we have seen over the last 48 years? Arsenal, a team that has the...


