England 0 - Spain (youth team) 3

I am sick, sore and tired of watching these matches, it debilitates, sucks and lunges the tapas right up the back of my throat, and on top of that I’m served the cold dish of dessert served up by ITV commentators trying to tell me the match is tart, without the tang.

Even when times look bad and the English national squad constantly subject us to habitual international beatings (win or a lose) – I scream at the set and tell them they are great with or with out international players on UK work permits.

The Premier League – the best international league in the world, the best international opportunities in the world, the best managers in the world (at Premiership level), the best international staffing and policing – the best cash opportunities in the world for international footballers and yet still the best international team in the world to put your money on to lose first blood in the world – come on, who has faith in them?

It doesn’t matter if the FA bring in international managers on UK work permit or not, the mind set is not there, there’s something missing in home grown players working in the UK together.

Spain vs. England – a friendly. A game that should have meant inspiring confidence in a side that sat out Euro 2008 because they failed to even qualify when everything else in the equation would suggest the opposite.

When a country is more passionate about football than Italy, France, Spain, Brazil and the Faroe Islands is, but more devoid of success than most, it’s time we looked deeper and ask ourselves a fundamental question, what’s wrong with the mindset of this country?

How much do we rely on foreign players coming into the league on tier 2 visas, how much does our country depend on it, we might be able to deal with the fact our national team is second rate but what would happen if we didn’t have the Premiership and the financial backing to sustain it?

There is probably more money in the English Premier League than the Bank of England at the minute, not a nice thought but true. We welcome international football players on tier 2 visas to the richest and most popular league in the world – quite a few are owned by overseas investors and yet we can’t even pull our own defence together like a premiership team would.

UK immigration lets international sportspeople work in the UK because they believe they will ‘make a significant contribution to the development of their sport.’ What supporter of an English team would actually believe that was true from watching their own national side play, not just last night but, well, can you actually tell me when the last time was?

Bringing international players into the Premiership on tier 2 work permits might make English football the best league in the world but it sure as hell doesn’t make English players the best.

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