[St Charles Owl]

Somehow suspect that in about 50 years or so there will be nobody alive who wil have seen us win a major tournament like I did 50 years ago

While ever the PL is full of non-English players we will struggle to win anything. I was listening to Danny Mills (I think it was him) on a podcast I downloaded and he said back in his day he would leave his club to join the England team and it was noticeable that the quality in the team was distinctly higher than in his league side. Now England players turn up at St Georges and when they look around the team they see players who are not as good as the ones they left at their clubs. We have produced a domestic league that in my opinion is the best in the world, where teams from top to bottom as competitive on any given Saturday, where its rare that any team gets hammered by any other and the quality of every team is high, but it has been at the expense of young English players getting in the first teams of the top clubs. Without players being given a chance they will stop progressing once they reach late teens/early 20s and while sending them on loan gives them match time etc, it will not improve them as players playing week in, week out against players in League 1!! Maybe the one benefit from Brexit is we do not have to automatically allow any decent player from any EU country to walk into the prem and force the clubs to have a higher number of English players in their matchday squads.