City team ‘pretty depressing’
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THE lack of English players in Manchester City’s first-choice team is “pretty depressing,” Football Association chairman Greg Dyke said. “It’s been a great league this year. I think the Premier League has been brilliant,” Dyke told Sunday newspapers.
“But I think there are probably two England players playing at City and two or three at Chelsea, although there won’t be that many next year. That’s pretty depressing.”
Dyke feels that City’s success reflects a damaging trend. “I think the figures that we produced showed the top four averaged 29 (English players between them) and this year it is down to 24,” he said. “We should be worried about that.”
Goalkeeper Joe Hart is the only English player who regularly starts for City and while midfielder James Milner has made 30 appearances in the league, 18 of them have been as a substitute.
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