Since reaching the quarter-finals of three consecutive tournaments under Sven-Goran Eriksson, England had failed to qualify for Euro 2008, been outclassed by a far younger, slicker Germany team at the 2010 World Cup and seen their limitations exposed by Italy at the quarter-final stage of Euro 2012. With the number of homegrown players in the Premier League falling sharply by the year, Dyke warned of a bleak future for England at international level. Its huge success, he said, had come at a cost for homegrown players and for the England men’s team, which was enduring one of those familiar periods of sustained underperformance. Twenty-two years on, in September 2013, the same TV executive, Greg Dyke, was chairman of the FA when he chose the same venue to issue his rallying cry.ĭyke spoke of the “unintended consequences” of the Premier League’s growth.
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