Just look at the mid table they are teams with lots of Englishmen yet they dont perform that well.Should somebody be giventhe opportunity just coz he is an Englishman or should the cream be left to flow to the top?
2006-11-13 17:39:48 · 9 answers · asked by dazzle 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
No, this question has been asked and repeated time and again.
The answer is always the same, foreign players have raised the standard of the game in England.
For Englishmen to succeed, it depends on youth academies and clubs investing in youth. When have you seen England triumph in U21, U19 and other youth tournaments?
But Italy, 4 times World Champions, have always done well in Euro Youth Tournaments. And Serie A despite having so many players from all over, have never failed to give Italy a good group of 23 players for any big tournament.
2006-11-13 21:25:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
"Just call me T" has missed the point entirely...we all want to see good players, but wanting to see more English players has absolutely nothing to do with the colour of their skin. Has he never seen a black Englishman?! There are several of them in the England team!!
The cream does not "flow to the top " anyway. It simply goes where the most money is...Chelsea are the obvious example of that; ten years ago they were one of those underperforming mid table sides..but now simply because they can afford to pay ridiculous wages, they can pick and choose any player in the world. How is that a good thing for the English game as a whole??
The limiting of overseas imports is used in many other countries in order to keep a large pool of their own players available for the national team. Its not a bad idea by any means.
2006-11-13 19:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an arsenal fan I think there should be at least 5 English players in every team but that's going to be hard to do as there are many clubs that are taken over by foreigner owners, arsenal probably have the worst amount of foreigners, but we have 2 first team English players in England under 21's & 1 scored yesterday against holland, but most of all we have a well established English Bord. if we can keep our clubs English then itll run from the top, and hpefuley it will eventually run to the team. That's my theory anyway.
2006-11-14 16:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.It won't.The English Premier league is what it is today only because of the foreign players playing in it.A fine example can be the lowly teams like Reading and Manc and stuff.They are almost all-English ,but lack pace,lack speed,and because of all that ,lack points.I don't think that there "plenty" of good English footballers,yeah,there might be one or two like Stevie Gerrard or Wayne Rooney or Paul scholes but the power shall still remain with Clubs with more foreign players.
Foreign players bring new styles of playing and loosen the game a little as i think that English football is extremely stiff...
2006-11-13 21:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by Answeraway-YNWA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... it would be good... we will be deprieve of many good young foreign players... Teams will use the quota to sign established stars who will go straight into the team rather than signing youngsters who will be playing in the reserves for the 1st few season they are in england... If this rule was implemented, we may not see another Fabregas in EPL which is the most televised league in Singapore...
2006-11-13 21:36:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definatly. If you look at the top teams most are predominantly made up of foriegn players. Liverpool having only three first team english players. Arsenal having NO first team english players. Chelsea having about four/ five first team english players. Manchester United having eight english players. Man u are ok but the rest are very poor,
It is an english premiership. We are english teams. We should have english players!!
2006-11-14 00:21:31 · answer #6 · answered by Lauri 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's very few English players in the League now, and more and more foreign players will try their luck in England in years to come.
I think it should change it's name from EPL to something else. Bosman Premier League perhaps... or whatever you can think of..
2006-11-13 18:24:11 · answer #7 · answered by Avatraz 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think that the best player should play no matter what, there should be no privileges given to any individual. that's how you win games by playing your best players. that's whats wrong with sports some people worry about the color of skin and nationality and not at the talent. that's just my opinion.
2006-11-13 18:09:22 · answer #8 · answered by Just call me T 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think it would be a good idea, cos it would basically screw arsenal and chelsea
2006-11-14 23:48:54 · answer #9 · answered by daveyhowells 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋