Well, that's over. Facebook is full of people essentially blaming foreigners for being a bit better and stopping English clubs from having to use English players.
Simple solution seems to be to send English players to all countries that you might play - and hoist them with their own petard.
Blaming foreign players is nonsense. how many foreign players were in English football in 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984? Did we do well in the World Cup? Did we hell!!
People also blame lack of money in grassroots football and the poor state of pitches. Did any of the plyers who did so shittily at the World Cup come via the grass roots football route? Did they hell. These cosetted little darlings came through the academies of some of the finest football clubs in the world, Man Utd, Liverpool, Everton (well maybe not Everton :p). My point being that it's exactly because these English players have it too easy for too long that they don't have the hunger or desire.
Lucas, a Brazilian international who plays for Liverpool was recently asked why Brazil did so well at producing youngsters, and would the new St Georges Park facility the FA now have help the England team? His response? Brazil do well because they DONT have a national academy where kids are pampered. Brazilain kids, and those in Uruguay and Costa Rica, and Columbia and many other successful footballing nations learn there football on the streets, the emphasis is on technique not winning. You won't find there parents bellowing on the touchline to get rid of the ball, or find the kids playing on full size pitches. It'sall about technique, technique and technique. When we change the focus for our youngsters to this, then maybe, just maybe we'll get somewhere in International football. Too many foreigners my arse!!