Arsenal a disgrace to England

I see London24 have picked up a point I was making about the disgraceful state of top clubs and London football clubs and their lack of desire to help the English national team,preferring instead to assist other countries.

We finished 3rd and supply 5 English players, Liverpool finished 8th and supply five England players, Arsenal finished 2nd and supply one, Chelsea supply one (and not a very good one), Manchester City provide two.

Marcello Lippi won the World Cup in 2006 with Italy and has recently spoken to the Italian media about their chances. He suggested making changes in Italy that would force clubs to play more Italian players as they are having the same problems we are having with teams playing foreigners. They too have a dwindling pool of players to choose from.

In 2006 the Italian league was made up of 65% of Italian players, now there are only around 35%, a similar statistic to the Premier League. It is that that which means we have to pick weak central defenders, an area where you need to be strong. We were blessed with some excellent centre-backs but they all seem to have gone now.

It's appalling that Arsenal supply 10 players to the European Championships and only one is English, that Chelsea supply 7 and only one is English. It's a trend that needs reversing so in that respect coming out of the European Union would stop the free flow of labour and allow our game to take back control.

I'll watch the European Championships with pride, pride for my country and pride that there is a heavy Tottenham presence after having none for the first time at our poor performances at the 2014  World Cup in Brazil.