Yes, it is Arsenal's fault that the youth system in England is rubbish, we single handedly destroyed it! I mean it isn't like other countries like Brazil, Holland, France, Germany produce youth that gets exported all over the world by hard work, skill and right attitude (they care about youth football so much, the U21 Holland coach faced the sack with national intrest. They won the thing.), it was just the fact Arsenal don't play there.
How many players did Liverpool/Chelsea/Man U have playing for England U17's in the recent cups? We had the most, 3. Here is this crazy idea of mine, the England youth system is not working, they may be able to create defenders, team play but that is it, not due to Arsenal but lack of investment and lack of proper coaching. We are not produced good keepers anymore, our players are out classed in terms of passing, movement and anything attacking that is more complicated then a high ball into box and knock it home.
Now tell me what the great lord all mighty Sepp Blatter, may his name forever be praised, new proposal do? Make us like the 80's teams were average English players with a few skilled players played long ball and hacking football, England did so well back then didn't they? It doesn't fix the problem of England's failure to produce good attacking players, you will still see dire football till that is fixed. Might I suggest you watch the England young team's, we dominated the shield in the u16's but England U17's rely on Moses and Rose to do stuff as the rest can only defend and counter, we are utterly outclassed in term of play by any big team of youth, U21's relied on Pearce's tactical nous and strong defending to get to the semi's, too often we ended up defending desperately in our own third.
Oh and the EU will block such a rule.
As for the English players we let go who are so great: Sidwell is a reserve Chelsea player who is nowhere near the England team. Where would he fit over Cesc, Gilberto, Flamini, Denilson, Diaby, Diarra, Lansbury and that young Spanish lad whose name escapes me. Merdia?
Pennant is still erratic for Liverpool and needed to move as someone else pointed out, we gave him as many chances to stop being an idiot as we could. DB plays for the mighty Blackburn who are... not in the Uefa Cup and has showed such amazing maturity (he did that in another country, he would be nowhere near the international side. Ever.). Upson is talented but injury prone and Taylor has managed to uh not be trusted with Aston Villa number one spot but should for Arsenal?
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Ok I wrote that thing above yesterday in response to a Liverpool fan who was thanking the world Sep Blatter was going to ruin those evil Arsenal lads and someone who suggested that our English players that had gone were brilliant players. He has yet to reply
England U16's dominate the shield because we face only N.Ireland, Scotland and Wales so we end up dominating and while there are a few decent looking players, none seem capable of carving up the defences. The u17's, hard to blame our Arsenal players for the style, two are defensive type players and one is alone up front. Roses and Moses are two real prospects going forward as they can create something special and are the only players who look like they can match up with the likes of N.Korea's forward play, we were lucky to get to the Euro final, we rode our luck quite a bit.
U21's, ok injuries, GA being out of contact and traitor boy meant we were robbed of our attacking talents but when we are so limited in good flair players... Meanwhile Holland are changing their youth system to allow big strong defenders as there current system relies too much on ball playing defenders. Oh the horror when we built a national stadium over an academy and our system is unable to produce players like the ones Holland have.
Look at the attitude to it though. U17's get to the world cup, we get half an hour clips for each match from Eurosport, only on getting to the final of the Euro's did they get press coverage from the Times. U21's, get a small part of a page each match, Sky neglected to show two recent matches and they only became big news when traitor boy pulled out and England went out in a heroic fashion, then praise was heaped on Pearce. Compare that to Holland where the U21's are a big thing, they had national debates over if the manager should be sacked. Imagine that? We had Howard Wilkison abuse his position to sack the successful Taylor without much of an uproar and take over himself.
). In fact the lack of english players prob means it has helped me lose interest in the england national side: that and the amount of overpaid, overhyped egotistical pricks that wear the england shirt as if its their god given right. 
