Imagine a world food contest.
The Italians and the French always do well, even if they haven't changed a number of dishes for years. Sometimes you get a spicy outsider that falls at the last hurdle but gives us all entertainment.
The Spanish should do well, but for some reason they fail to...
The best we can do in the medium team build a team (like a club builds a team) and learn to forget how a player has performed in the league, if at all.
The point being that The Premier League are not going to assist in producing a national team that can compete. They have no interest to do so...
We need to be in the middle of a rebuilding process, the fact there is a World Cup in the middle of is irrelevant. Spain will undoubtedly fix whatever needs to be done for them to come back stronger.
Will England ? I'd like to think so, but I somewhat doubt it since all the time the press and...