A top class National Team or a league which is the envy of the world...

...I'm afraid you can't have both.

The Premier League does far more for our economy than the national team and it puts our country in a positive light all over the world.

*My views are a bit skewed as I've not really given too much of a toss about England for about ten years

 

Thing is like many here, i'm beginning to hate the Premier League. Greedy *******s.

 

It does need to change, it doesn't particularly excite me as I'm a Barnsley fan and that's it, I hardly ever even watch MOTD anymore but you can't deny the impact it's had on the world. One of my friends who traveled around the far-east told me he was in some pokey town where there was barely evidence of electricity (something like Cambodia or Vietnam) yet he went in a bar one evening and there was a load of locals crowded around a small tele going bonkers over a live game.

 

I'd have to disagree the Germans seam to be doing a pretty good job of balancing both

 

Think Spain have done ok over the last 10 years!