English Players in English Premier League

TX Bill · May 27, 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7417746.stm

Interesting article on BBC website about the number of English players, or lack thereof, starting at each club. Everton in the top quarter with 4.89 of 11 starters on average being English.

Arsenal at the bottom so no surprise there.

Welton Toffee · May 27, 2008

English Players

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7417746.stm

Interesting reading there. In the table of average English players in starting line-ups we finish 5th with an average of 4.89.

Arsenal are bottom of the pile with 0.34 whilst West Ham are top with 6.61

EDIT - [Poor language removed], merged, Bill got there before me!!

Bruce Wayne · May 27, 2008

I shall beat the masses with a "darn those smelly foreigners, ban the lot of them, put a cap on etc."

TX Bill · May 27, 2008

Welton Toffee said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7417746.stm

Interesting reading there. In the table of average English players in starting line-ups we finish 5th with an average of 4.89.

Arsenal are bottom of the pile with 0.34 whilst West Ham are top with 6.61

EDIT - [Poor language removed], merged, Bill got there before me!!

Great minds and all that... :lol:

Welton Toffee · May 28, 2008

TX Bill said:
Great minds and all that...

Right on dude

Dom1878 · May 28, 2008

Well i dont think its that bad...not for us anyway, but arsenal and liverpool are terrible...

I think we should have a rule that we must have only 5 non eu, and 5 eu players (ex. england), the rest english...

but who do everton have? alot! Especially in the first team...

Neville, Jagielka, Lescott, Osman, Johnson

...then we have the subs - Vaughan and Hibbert - and even Anichebe and next season Gosling will be pushing into the squad too...

...so im happy with our team

Bruce Wayne · May 28, 2008

Anichebe's Nigerian

Gazdalf · May 28, 2008

Sep Blatters 6 + 5 rule works for me. 6 home grown (minimum)and 5 others on the pitch at any one team.

In a slight touch of contradiction though in the 70's there were hardly any foreigners in the top league and England failed to qualify for 2 major tournaments. kinda screws everything up.

zero · May 28, 2008

Gazdalf said:
Sep Blatters 6 + 5 rule works for me. 6 home grown (minimum)and 5 others on the pitch at any one team.

That would be a fantastic rule, Arsenal wouldn't have a pot to piss in and would come calling for Phil Neville at 15million

Dom1878 · May 28, 2008

Bruce Wayne said:
Anichebe's Nigerian

Well yes,. but hes lived in England all his life...so :unsure:

:huh:

Gazdalf · May 29, 2008

zero said:
That would be a fantastic rule, Arsenal wouldn't have a pot to piss in and would come calling for Phil Neville at 15million

Fair play to Blatter, he has pushed it forward I have heard. Except (gonna love this), the EU has stepped in and tried to block it as it contravenes employment laws as it may be classed as discriminatory. Blatter will keep on fighting it though. I for one am with him for once.

I may even start a worldwide petition across as many clubs as possible to find out what the consensus is across fans.

Bruce Wayne · May 29, 2008

The way English players will improve is through better coaching. Not sure quite why people can't see that.

zero · May 29, 2008

Gazdalf said:
I may even start a worldwide petition across as many clubs as possible to find out what the consensus is across fans.

that sounds like a great idea, I'd sign it definitely maybe the premiership wouldn't be so predictable if the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool had to rely on English talent once in a while instead of blowing untold millions on some wonder kid from Spain and France.

It would also see more English kids progressing through academies and actually being played by their clubs.

More faith in English talent is what is required in the premiership even if it's forced upon teams.