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I actually have quite a strong opinion on that. Foreign players in the premiership make practically no negative impact on the England football team.
First of all, England are one of the top 10 teams in the world. Given the size and population of the country and the number of nations that play the sport, that's a bloody awesome effort. Whatever you do in football, you can't always guarantee having the world's best team. But somehow when England are "only" the 6th or 7th best side in the world, the media here spends years speculating on what they're doing wrong.
Secondly, there's factual considerations. Look at the England team now compared to the England sides of the 70s and 80s when the football league was dominated by British-born players- is it any worse? It's much the same really.
Thirdly, the argument doesn't actually make the slightest bit of sense. If a lot of quality foreigners come into the game, the net effect isn't to "keep Englishmen away from top-class football" as they seem to think. It simply creates another class, a higher class than that which was there before.
There's one more major issue to clear up. Foreign footballers aren't better because Arsenal always play them ahead of Englishmen. Arsenal always play foreign footballers ahead of Englishmen because they're better. Cause and effect become badly confused there for some reason.
The other thing to say is that English players very rarely play overseas. Playing in another country benefits your game immensely. If they were to play in Spain and learn a bit of quality technical ability to go with the power and pace in the English game they could be seriously good players.
