Originally posted by 798:
but some buggers will blame Arsenal for fielding foreign players in BPL.

england players r just LOUSY~! if they r good, they should be going abroad to gain more experience instead of being home boys n getting fat cheque!
not trying to rebut what you posted but IMHO, the thing is not just because of them not wanting to go another league but more if other leagues wants them..
generally for a big leagues like in England, Italy or Spain their best players are often being kept by some big local club, mainly for commerical reasons only a handful of star players would go overseas due to their club not willing to do business with local rivals.
also playing aboard doesn't makes one a better player, gather experience from another league no doubt but wouldn't make huge differences, the failure of England voice down to lots of factors from not having a good tactician as their manager to injuries to not doing enough maturing good young players to media's building stars out of some slightly above avg players and so on...
also their failing started the day they drew with teams they should have won, Croatia was just the final nail thats all.. and if their FA were to appoint Shearer as their manager we would probably not see them in the world cup too...