WHICH Premiership club will follow Arsenal and be the first to field a team 100 per cent nonqualified for England.
I agree with David Hancock`s “nurturing” comments of two weeks’ ago. A recent study shows that of 546 Premiership contracted players, 166 – or 30 per cent – are not qualified to play for England, leaving 380 to select from.
Even worse, in a recent round of matches 51 per cent of starting line-ups were made up of non qualifiers.
The England squad is selected from the 380 Premiership players, but there are about 175 to 200,000 regular players in our ...