Prime examples of players who had their development stopped in their tracks because of too many foreign players being above them in the pecking order. Both represented England and excelled at youth level but have gone nowehere.
However, you have to ask in these two cases, why are these two guys...
May have got my dates wrong - 99-01. They had an awful tournament at the Euros in 2000 and we beat them on their home patch 5-1 in '01 didn't we? (Imagine that!)