If only English Premier League goals counted in games...

This compares, on the left, the final table of the Premier League and, on the right, the league if goals only counted if they were scored by English players.

E.g. - in reality
Man City 2 West Ham 0
Nasri and Komany scored

If ony English goals counted...
Man City 0 West Ham 0

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Would make a great ukip poster that

Yawn Gonna be a long summer

It links in with the Greg Dyke 'developing the English elite player thing' for me. Given the current elite club is Man City, that they've received a FFP fine of £50m, it might be that old Greg's a bit ashamed that the current top English club is avoiding FFP by just paying a fine, a fine that's both enormous and affordable and also has very few English players.

Who was the first top flight club to field an entirely non-English team? It wasn't Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal.

For me, this league really does point to Southampton. If the FA want guidance on how to develop the future England side, why don't they just pop down to Southampton and have a look around?

hairy j wrote:

Who was the first top flight club to field an entirely non-English team? It wasn't Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal.

On December 26, 1999, Chelsea became the first Premier League side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up, and on February 14, 2005, Arsenal were the first to name a completely foreign 16-man squad for a match.

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Liverpool won the FA Cup in '86 without a single English player on the pitch at kick off.

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One substitute! An Englishman that never got on the pitch.

I ran a pub quiz on Mutley Plain to subsidise my Uni years.

Rather than Dyke looking at meddling with the lower leagues, enforce a ruling. All league clubs put 10% of their budget into youth development. 50% of that must be pushed out to schools. Fund PE teachers (make and female) to obtain coaching badges up to a certain level, pay for match officials to referee games - in youth football, we never had linesmen unless we got a bit far in the Devon Cup (we had linesmen when we played Exeter youth team down at Manadon - we won 2-1). Fund local clubs for kids.
Those clubs will see returns via transfer fees- the West Ham youth side during the 2000s was astonishing.
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Incidentally, clubs such as Liverpool, Everton and Southampton, who have really backed their English players, have had marvellous seasons.

Clubs like Fulham, West Brom, Newcastle etc. have used overpaid foreigners and will have them on the wage bill in the CCC.

that's karma!