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Superblade7 · 11-01-2014, 12:46

The German revolution all started when Jurgen Klinsmann took charge of the national side in 2004. He worked with the German FA to ensure that all the clubs from the national team down to grass roots all played and coached in a similar style so that players would easily slip into club or national team. It's paid off big style with the success of both the German national team and club teams in the last few years.

You also look around the top European Leagues and the top teams are filled with great players from that country. The top Premier League teams are filled with many foreign players which, whilst is great to see them play in this country, only continues to hurt the English national team.

Unfortunately with the Premier League pretty much it's own entity and ruling the roost, nothing much will change whilst the cash keeps rolling in. At some stage, the FA need to grow some balls as alwaysabear has pointed out otherwise the English national team will (unfortunately) probably never see any success.

Being somewhat biased as you'll see from my avatar, I'd also like to see a lot more Football League games on TV. Whilst there is not always the glitz and glamour of the Premier League or Champions League, there are some excellent games in the Football League. Maybe Sky could look at this to fill the hole they'll have without the Champions League.

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Superblade7 cf.geek Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sheffield Services: Sky Q 2TB & Sky Q Mini (Box Sets with Cinema & Sports HD) with VM VIVID 100Mbps Broadband & M Phone Posts: 582	Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news The German revolution all started when Jurgen Klinsmann took charge of the national side in 2004. He worked with the German FA to ensure that all the clubs from the national team down to grass roots all played and coached in a similar style so that players would easily slip into club or national team. It's paid off big style with the success of both the German national team and club teams in the last few years. You also look around the top European Leagues and the top teams are filled with great players from that country. The top Premier League teams are filled with many foreign players which, whilst is great to see them play in this country, only continues to hurt the English national team. Unfortunately with the Premier League pretty much it's own entity and ruling the roost, nothing much will change whilst the cash keeps rolling in. At some stage, the FA need to grow some balls as alwaysabear has pointed out otherwise the English national team will (unfortunately) probably never see any success. Being somewhat biased as you'll see from my avatar, I'd also like to see a lot more Football League games on TV. Whilst there is not always the glitz and glamour of the Premier League or Champions League, there are some excellent games in the Football League. Maybe Sky could look at this to fill the hole they'll have without the Champions League.