Thatcher, English football has been affected so badly that in the last eight years we have only got to two World Cup semi-finals and a quarter final, and two European Championship finals. I put a lot of that down to the influence of top quality foreign players whose standard of play has increased the ability of English players. Long may that continue. The offshoot of that is that English players have reached a standard where they are in demand with Continental clubs, a very encouraging sign.