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Originally Posted by vincerooney
it shouldnt have been though. clubs are overcharging to desperately keep themselves afloat. surely that should tell us that
1) the lower league clubs cannot sustain themselves
2) theyre ripping fans off to try and keep above water providing no value for money
3) have poor or lacklustre training facilities which hinder development of youth as they can barely afford to operate never mind improve their facilities.
its bleak and you get about 2k loyal fans passionately trying to keep the likes of accrington, dagenham, morecambe, burton, cheltenham etc in the football league protesting strongly. the sad fact is theyre remaining in the football league as the uk is so backward to progress.
imagine top flight clubs with B teams. the youth players who finally get to taste league football rather than rotting in chelseas youth sides. young kids who get to train in state of the art facilities with top coaches for a B team. who then they get experience get promoted and then shockingly would experience EPL first team experience.
instead we get the "plucky" accrington stanley with their 2000 passionate fans protesting progress. the young players train at a local park with a head coach who used to be a train driver. the facilities include a shed and bucket of water and sponge. the
and then we wonder why no english players are produced. as chelski continue to hoarde any talented english kid and let them rot in the inadequete youth league system never trusting the kid in the first team as they're so inexperienced.
These same 2000 angry fans will then call up bereating the lack of english youth. You have to laugh or you'd cry. In germany or spain they'd be wiped clean. In england its a case of "aww but they've always been here". Same old england. always looking back never forward.
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I'd somewhat disagree with you there vince. The England team has really gone downhill since the beginning of the Premier League. The problem is that it's now the Premier League that control English Football rather than the FA or Football league resulting in it being all about ever-increasing their revenues.
The only way you will ever improve the England team again would be to re-introduce some form of quota system to say that each Premier League team has to have say 5 English players in their starting 11. Getting English players playing regularly for the top clubs is the only way to save the England team.
You only have to look at the top European teams such as Germany, Spain and Italy and most of their first 11 are made up of players from the top two or three clubs within their country. When you look at the top 3 Premier League teams, I think you'd struggle to make up an England 11 and it was only a few years ago when Arsenal didn't have a single English player in their team.
The B Team idea would have destroyed the Football League. You'd have ended up with a situation under the proposal where the Premier League B teams, due to the resources available, would have ended up finishing in the top 10 places in League 1 but couldn't have got promoted. So you could have ended up with a weird scenario where the team finishing 11th would then be promoted to the Championship?
Also, would the B Team idea have helped the England Team? Many of the top clubs bring across young kids from overseas at the ages of 11/12 so they can qualify under the current 'home grown' rule. Would these have then been eligible to play in the B Teams and if so, again to the detriment of the England team.
So yes, we probably have the best and most exciting league in the world which draws all the top players but has an impact on the England team.