Fresh England Shows City Are Moving Forward, Shocking Numbers Of Under 21 Players At One Club Revealed!

England last night had a glimpse of what is on its way, football is finally coming home with a bit of luck and City's lads representing England did us proud.

Last thing I want to do is beat down players but is it me or is Walcott still over-rated?, I mean the lad produced one worthy cross into the box in my opinion and our Adam Johnson did far more for England in ten minutes than Walcott did in one hour.

Adam Johnson continues to justify why Manchester City went out on a limb to bring him to Eastlands.

Gareth Barry put in a good performance but I still think he has room to improve, James Milner continues to justify why City paid the fee despite anti Englishman Cashely Cole making life harder by wanting to attack all the time leaving huge space behind him which many strong sides like Spain will exploit.

Let James Milner do the job hes great at Cashley and do some defending will you.

Finally Joe Hart, didn't have much to do until the last twenty minutes or so apart from the almost Glen Johnson blunder, but when called upon the lad was absolutely, fantastically, amazingly, again unbelievably on form.

Well done to the lad for a tip top performance and boy am I glad he is a Manchester City player and not a rag, oh I feel sorry for Wayne Rooney and wonder what he thinks of when he is surrounded by Manchester City stars?

On to the under 21 subject.

One Premier League club has reportedly only put forward a list of 20 senior players but supplemented that list with a reported 56 under 21 players, now if that is not trying to farm youth then I don't know what is.

Club in question: Arsenal FC

For decades young players have only had a few select clubs to dream about playing for, these clubs have been feeding off other clubs youth systems via their own popularity. 

It is all well and good bringing in a few select future stars but to draft in so many young players is just preposterous.

Half these young players could be playing at other clubs around the world but instead they are fighting to play for one thing, to play for a popular club for all the wrong reasons.

Sure agents and parents have to also take part of the blame, but the majority of the blame lay solely at the feet of the clubs in question. I'm sure there are one or two other countries clubs doing the same but I am English so will stick to my country.

PFA Chief Executive Gordon Taylor claimed that the new Premier League rules do not go far enough to improve home grown talent but is he right?

I believe the rules do not even scratch the surface as this is supposed to be about getting England back on track and not Europe back on track instead.

The problem is not having enough young English talent coming through the ranks, Manchester City have produced some fine young English talent in recent years and still continue to produce with the likes of young England striker Alex Nimely etc. But one or two clubs can not carry a nation and its high time English clubs get off their backsides and start to bring football back to English families doorsteps.

For example Manchester City FC's project 'City in the Community' along with other projects are a benchmark for what needs to be done so other English clubs should take note.

One thing is for sure though and that is having a shocking number of young players at one club is not good for development as they should all be playing football instead of one half watching the other half progress, in my opinion you should only have as many as you can play in all leagues and competitions.

Now can anyone honestly say 76 players in a first and reserve team combined is not shocking, I would not like to see my club follow farming clubs like these but rather see huge quality over quantity instead.

Whats your opinion?