And given that this is the first year in five that there’s been a fall at all, I’m not really sure what their point really is.

there are stats stats and damn lies. The graph isn’t wrong its just adjusted to view a certain point. No lying – just emphasising a point

I actually saw the same reporter (from the BBC program) doing a news interview for SKY. Clearly some kind of PR spin campaign is going on.

But to resort to messed up graphs is pretty gross.

Another thing they mentioned is that Italy have the highest percentage of Italian starters in their league then go on to link this with their recent success in the World Cup. What they don’t mention is Germany have one of the lowest league starters percentages (roughly equivalent of that in the premiership) and they have enjoyed (only second to Brazil) the most success in recent world cups.

The truth is this is probably yet another attempt by the FA to make fans forget how they are not investing the money they make out of us back into football at any reasonable rate, and that thanks to them hiring a total baffoon to run the england team we dont have anyone to represent us in the upcomming championships, thus costing the nation billions, so lets blame the foreigners.

The reality is England needs to INVEST, INVEST and INVEST some more because quite fraknly this is a problem that can be solved by throwing money at it. INVEST in training players, coaches and managers. INVEST in free or very affordable and accessable facilities, thats five and eleven aside because just having them all over the country would be enough to boost the numbers dramatically. INVEST in a system that unifies the education system with the sports system like they have in the U.S.A and as you can see all their sports are dominated always have been and always will be by Americans and whats more they are all multi-billion dollar industries. INVEST in compensating smaller clubs for having sold off their young english talents to larger premier league clubs so that they can go and advance onto the international stage.

And just like that you have the blueprint to the answer, not someone going on about foreigners comming in taking over but instead this is the only answer to the problem, an total and aggressive overhaul of the entire footballing system. It requires a lot of time a lot of money and a lot of hard work but sadly i think you’ll find that few will even consider it for that very same reason. It seems until all the sport in this country has fallen apart will wnyone be willing to consider this option and so for now twisting the stastics and miserably failing to ask the right questions is the best you will get from our media.