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Originally Posted by denphone
No disrespect to Southampton Julian  who are a lovely club and who also have a excellent youth system but the fact remains that top English players need to play for the biggest clubs at a rarified level if England are ever to punch their weight in international football again. |
Baloney, it's a recent phenomenon that players had to be playing for a top club, it didn't matter in '66 or '90 who people played for and both those teams did a lot better than this rabble.