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ALAN, DREAM ON, the world is multi cultural now, all­ nationalities live in london. Imagine the premier­ league without Cantona, Ronaldo, ZOLA, flipping steve­ Lomas and carlton Palmer. Come on E N G E R L A N D

Lets have English players playing in the Premier­ League. Foreign players should play for their own­ leagues.How can we gain and english team if we are­ buying abroad and they then go and play against us ­ International football is joke as many of these people­ actually play inthe U.K.

So then, EPL = England or English players.... not so­ I'm afraid.... the players he refers to are mainly­ from other nations and simply playing in the EPL. Like­ his general analysis otherwise, but England still not­ good enough by a long way to be considered championship­ material.

England (management, players, media) always think &­ talk as if winning every competition is the team's­ divine rightand always feel sorry for themselves after­ the usual exit at the quarter final stage. The EPL­ is the best league in the world and on the face of it­ should produce the best international team in the world­ but it belies the comparatively low number of truly­ gifted English players playing in it. Face it lads,­ Italy are going to win this one; pack your bags and get­ the violins & the Kleenex out again.

Really good analysis

benitez talks about the passing on the floor in the­ prem but they are almost all none english players so­ dont have much relevance to the national team. we cant­ pass the ball at international level. with all the­ great managers we have had we have failed to retain the­ ball,that is were we are going wrong. every other team­ in the euros can string more passes together than us.­ we will not win anything until we address this problem

Benitez = Legend

Benitez does talk a lot of sense here, he puts the guy­ in his place about English football doesn't he!! ­ Hodgson is three months into the job and has at least­ got England organised!! OK it isn't pretty to­ watch but it has got the job done so far, will they­ progress?? I think they are capable of beating Italy­ but it will be a tough game for them, can they win it??­ Don't know about that, hate to say it but the­ Germans are very good indeed as are Spain, I think a­ Germany Spain final is the most likely outcome with­ Germany winning by the odd goal but you just never­ know!!

I like Benitez, he talks quite a lot of sense. Good for­ him for sticking up for the EPL too, confirming to the­ rest of Europe that we do play good possession­ football. In the Euro's we are taking a more­ defensive approach, but I like this, at least we have a­ winning gameplan, no matter how boring it may be.