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Spurs and Villa suck right now, u expect them to be any better with English players
ain't that the truth
And I generally like the English.
yeah thanks for outlawing our native tongue and torturing anyone who tried to keep our native ways alive
thanks for the average drunken,bumbling idiot who goes abroad,eats british food, in a british pub,drinks (shite) british beer and complains about the fuckin spanish
would that be the game that was played for centuries in many different countries before you lot adopted it and wrote "the rules"
yeah we should be thankful you raped our country of its oil reserves,fucked us in the ass with the "scottish tax" poll tax then rioted when it hit your country,glad you cleared the highlands losing out history/language/traditions/etc... but most of all i suppose i should be glad that you took so many scottish football managers and showed them where they were going wrong with your superb tactical knowldege. i mean scottish managers look upon their english counterparts with great envy,what with all of them being in such high pressure positions winning so many european trophies and all
thanks for the average drunken,bumbling idiot who goes abroad,eats british food, in a british pub,drinks (shite) british beer and complains about the fuckin spanish
would that be the game that was played for centuries in many different countries before you lot adopted it and wrote "the rules"
yeah we should be thankful you raped our country of its oil reserves,fucked us in the ass with the "scottish tax" poll tax then rioted when it hit your country,glad you cleared the highlands losing out history/language/traditions/etc... but most of all i suppose i should be glad that you took so many scottish football managers and showed them where they were going wrong with your superb tactical knowldege. i mean scottish managers look upon their english counterparts with great envy,what with all of them being in such high pressure positions winning so many european trophies and all
Here we are.
Richards - PL hurts England
Chairman believes influx of foriegn stars hurting national side
Last updated: 10th June 2008
Richards: Controversial comments
Premier League chairman Sir David Richards has admitted that the competition 'hurts' the England team.
Richards believes the academy system has not worked as it is 'an easy thing' to go out and buy foreign imports.
But his views could put him on a collision course with Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who claims England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 had nothing to do with the influx of overseas stars.
England-qualified players made up 34 per cent of clubs' starting line-ups last season and Scudamore has rejected any measures to impose a quota on foreign players in the English game.
But speaking at the Third Dubai International Sports Conference, held in the United Arab Emirates principality at the end of May, Richards said in an recording obtained by The Guardian: "Does the Premier League hurt the national side? I think the answer to that has got to be yes.
Easy thing
"We've been a bit lazy in the Premier League over the years. We created a system of academies and every club spends about £3million a year developing young players. But it hasn't worked, because the availability for us to go out and buy the best stars is an easy thing.
"Anybody who comes into the league needs to stay in it, so needs to buy the best stars. We pick kids up at eight years old, we send them to the academy, then at 16 we make them a student, then at 18 we say they haven't made it."
Richards even suggested the Premier League had cost former England boss Steve McClaren his job last year.
"Steve will tell you that he has to have the best players available and the Premier League has hurt him," Richards said.
"In fact, I would probably go as far as to say the Premier League has probably cost him his job. Because what we've done, we've actually bought all these foreign players in."
Fixture congestion
Richards also believes fixture congestion is a problem because the Premier League was originally intended to be eventually reduced to an 18-club competition when it was formed in 1992.
He added: "The 20 shareholders said, 'No, we ain't voting to go down to 18'. So fixture congestion is a real problem."
Asked later whether he now stood by his comments, Richards claimed what he had said was not quite what he meant.
The Premier League responded by saying: "These comments do not represent the collective view of the Premier League."
-----Well duh.
Richards - PL hurts England
Chairman believes influx of foriegn stars hurting national side
Last updated: 10th June 2008
Richards: Controversial comments
Premier League chairman Sir David Richards has admitted that the competition 'hurts' the England team.
Richards believes the academy system has not worked as it is 'an easy thing' to go out and buy foreign imports.
But his views could put him on a collision course with Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who claims England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 had nothing to do with the influx of overseas stars.
England-qualified players made up 34 per cent of clubs' starting line-ups last season and Scudamore has rejected any measures to impose a quota on foreign players in the English game.
But speaking at the Third Dubai International Sports Conference, held in the United Arab Emirates principality at the end of May, Richards said in an recording obtained by The Guardian: "Does the Premier League hurt the national side? I think the answer to that has got to be yes.
Easy thing
"We've been a bit lazy in the Premier League over the years. We created a system of academies and every club spends about £3million a year developing young players. But it hasn't worked, because the availability for us to go out and buy the best stars is an easy thing.
"Anybody who comes into the league needs to stay in it, so needs to buy the best stars. We pick kids up at eight years old, we send them to the academy, then at 16 we make them a student, then at 18 we say they haven't made it."
Richards even suggested the Premier League had cost former England boss Steve McClaren his job last year.
"Steve will tell you that he has to have the best players available and the Premier League has hurt him," Richards said.
"In fact, I would probably go as far as to say the Premier League has probably cost him his job. Because what we've done, we've actually bought all these foreign players in."
Fixture congestion
Richards also believes fixture congestion is a problem because the Premier League was originally intended to be eventually reduced to an 18-club competition when it was formed in 1992.
He added: "The 20 shareholders said, 'No, we ain't voting to go down to 18'. So fixture congestion is a real problem."
Asked later whether he now stood by his comments, Richards claimed what he had said was not quite what he meant.
The Premier League responded by saying: "These comments do not represent the collective view of the Premier League."
-----Well duh.
