Firstly, always get agrieved when people have an easy go at Arsenal. Wenger plowed millions into training Bentley, Hoytes 1 and 2, Upson, Pennant, Cashley, Theo and just lots of players. We have a lot of foreign players but so what. frankly Hoyte could have become the worlds best centre back, while Rooney turned out to be crap, you can't know if someone will make it when you bring them in at the ages of 10-16. Arsenal are being punished for not playing first team English players, because two left/were poached and ran off to get more money despite both being ridiculously highly paid, and youngsters not becoming as good as expected.
Not to mention we had fairly little money a small stadium in a very expensive city and weren't raking it in like Man U/liverpool or backed by a billionaire.
But either way, its not even a problem. England having foreign players in the league doesn't matter. The entire team that played in the game(ok probably just 98% of it) play on a montly basis against teams that feature all the best players in international football. They can all be in squads that can beat these teams for their club but not country. They played like crap, that means we know they can play better, the reason they didn't play better is what needs fixing.
We need less money involved in and more grounding, teaching and education of our young stars. how many have problematic attitudes mostly because they were paid to much and just don't act like well, adults really. We need better training.
For some reason a lot of smart people point out that technically we are worse than other teams and thats all we hear. our coaching setup has to get better, this seems to have mostly led to the entire country deciding "technical" stands for "doing pointless tricks" so we have all these kids learning to do kickups, getting drunk and not learning the basics of football. Tricks are easy for someone who spends all day long playing with a football, but our kids are mostly just learning the tricks. Take a Ronaldo of Fabregas, the things that make them great are the same in both cases. Positional play, tactical awareness, vision, passing, knowing when and where to run, dropping off players, making space, turning into space, turning away from tackles. None of that is tricks, or skill even, thats mostly just tactical, or technical knowledge of the game.
Ronaldo on top of that can do tricks, but those tricks would be mostly useless(downing/joe cole) if he didn't make perfectly timed runs, pass fantastically and make space for himself.
Our youngsters all focus on learning Ronaldo's tricks, rather than his positional play, thats our countrys biggest failing. With every new crop of english players we seem to get more "tricky" players, but ones that have no end game, they don't know the basic's. They are dumb, rich, can flick the ball but have no idea where to run or when. Thats englands problem. We're training the flash stuff and ignoring the basics that every great player in the world learnt when they were young.
The team has little to no balance, chooses out of form players for the squad for no apparent reason, ignores great players because they are at the wrong clubs and in general seems to be chosen based on the most popular public opinion. The most popular public opinion of who should be in the team and what team/tactics will win a cup for us, is ALWAYS wrong, but they don't learn either.
Then on top of all of that, why make the premier league worse, and it WILL be worse. With some 38 games per club a season, 100's of games total of entertainment(well lots are good, some crap) at the expense of supposedly making england play better in what, 8-10 games a year? I wouldn't hate it if England won a cup, but frankly, I watch football weekly, i want the league to be the best it can be, bar non. Screw the international football, no team that doesn't practice together every day will ever play as good football. International football will NEVER be on the same level as top flight league football, its simply impossible. Why trade 100's of entertaining games a year for a handfull of england games assuming it would fix englands terrible performances? if the prem league got substanstially worse, viewing and attendance figures dropped, advertising, ticket prices, wages, and numbers trying to become footballers would all drop. It makes zero sense to damage the league, theres not one logical reason it would improve the English game, but dozens of reasons its likely to make England even worse.
, but I'll save that argument for another thread
....my own fault.