So 4 English clubs make up the 2 major European club competition finals.
However few English players will feature and no English managers before the media start the inevitable self congratulatory OTT wank circle.
Arguably it's a good thing in that the top players from the world come to our league therefore raising the bar and meaning English players learn from their teammates and managers and up their game to feature in teams.
Likewise the English managers will need to adapt and overcome if they are to succeed alongside their foreign counterparts.
Also making the EPL the go to league brings the money that theoretically trickles doen through our leagues as far as grass roots level.
Perhaps even in tenuous happy clappy view it also brings diversity of cultures etc to the forefront and role models of English youngsters are from further afield in a time where the country is going through a period of introspective navel gazing.
But is it really healthy in the long run for the English game. If English managers aren't getting the top jobs and youngsters are perhaps not getting the top flight experience could it be damaging?
This debate has gone on for years but just thought it relevant as whilst it's 4 English clubs they are very English in terms of managers who've masterminded the success, the players who have delivered it and in all cases bar Levy the money men owners who have funded it.
I'd like to think it brings the benefits and raises the standards all round like when Wenger turned up with his insistence on dental care and the likes of Zola rocked up with healthy diets and teetotalism before revolutionising the English game a quarter of a century ago.
But difficult to know whether it improves or stunts the development of the English game overall.
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TAA, Gomez, Milner, Henderson, Rose, Trippier, Alli and Kane
and that’s just off the top of my head!
They can attract the world best players and the top English clubs will battle it out with Barcelona, Madrid and the odd Italian German or French superpower based on the economics.
If anything it will be more likely under the current economics.
We've never had it so good.
Out of 44 players it's a small proportion .
However there probably are more than I realised come to think of it :-)
Good in that case as surely raising standards
UEFA will this morning no doubt be fuming that there are 2 all English finals.
When fans make the comment "good to see English clubs do well", I smile inwardly.
in all honesty the rich get richer and the top 6 pull away from the rest ...
the top two 23+ points in front of 3rd
an awful Man Utd team , in 6th , are 9 points in front of 7th and 13 in front of 8th ...
When will someone outside those top 6 break in to the top 4
leicester truly was was a footballing miracle and never to be seen again and most of all it stopped Tottenham .
I mean a flag was hanging from the counter at Hobbs Cross Golf Centre yesterday , grown men walking round the streets in Spurs attire ,a few of the dads chats come alive with gobby Spurs fans goading everyone .
The nightmare has begun , fuck of you *****, come on Liverpool and I despise them !!
Only 4 of the Barca side were Spanish.
Only 3 of the Valencia side were Spanish.
Only 3 of the Frankfurt side were German
Big club, my backside.
although going by the last week of footballing joy Ive had , palace will finish top 4 next season and the following season millwall will break the 100 point barrier as they become Premier League Champions , completing the treble , pipping palace to the title with a millwall time winner in the 12th minute of added time
All English matches don't interest me because as others have said it's the same top 4 teams or so every year it's boring. I much prefer to see other teams like Ajax have a go instead of the same teams that are suffocating English football with their dominance.
I would just rather see our top teams playing other top teams from abroad rather than slugging it out with each other because money has allowed it.
When I say a game will be boring it's more the fixture itself I mean than the actual game being played. Ajax v Liverpool or Spurs v Barcelona would have interested me a lot more is more the point I was making but probably didn't put across like that originally.
Good research Chris. I think that and Callum's post answer the questions nicely.
on a side note, will the EPL get any additional European places for next season?
CL winner gets a spot in next seasons champions league - both already qualified through the PL so where does that spot go?
EL winner gets a spot in next seasons Champions league - if the winners have already qualified through the PL does it go to the runners up if not where does it go?
No anti Englishness here...very proud of my country and our national team.