McClennan wrote:How do you work that one out? As none of the other leagues have any significant number of English players then English players must surely be a significant contributing factor to this league being the best in the world. If you replaced the English players with Italian players (or whoever) then it would no longer be the best league in the world because it would more or less be the Italian league.
The success of the Premier League is around 60% down to the foreign invasion.
The league division one was English/British. It was a good, fast, English type of game. The Premier League's success has been adding on fantastic foreign talent on top of that type of game.
If the Premier League went back to the number of English players of division one then it would be a massively inferior league.
Just watched the highlights of the Holland game to see what Robben did. Look at Robben play and then watch Joe Cole's impact for England. It's frightening.