Source: Team_Talk
Big Sam bemoans shrinking options
Portsmouth and Arsenal played the first ever Premier League fixture to kick off without an English player on the field on Wednesday night.[LNB]The statistic does not bode well for England's domestic pool of talent in the years to come and Allardyce believes it is time for changes to be made to the culture of player development.[LNB]"As an Englishman, my thought is that the Premier League and the FA really need to get together and start immediately, regarding how they are going to address this situation," Allardyce said. "For the national team in the future, it is looking very, very, very bleak indeed.[LNB]"If you went through the amount of English players that are now playing in the Premier League there are very few indeed and those are the only players that England's national side can choose from.[LNB]"We all know how passionate we are about our national team so it's a real big one for the Premier League and FA to get their heads together and develop a culture in this country of developing young English players."[LNB][LNB]
