Since English fans first started singing “it’s coming home”, it has never come home. In fact, football has only “come home” once ever, and that was way back in 1966. Since then, it has been poor officiating like in 1986 at the World Cup, hard luck like in 1998 and 2010 at the World Cup, and near misses like in 2018 at the World Cup and 2021 at the Euros.

We could give all sorts of excuses for the lack of success at international competitions for more than half a century now, but they would hardly hold water because the simple fact is that the 3 Lions should actually be doing much better than they have been doing.

And so many things could be blamed for these underwhelming outings; the FA, bad officiating, poor coaching, lack of zeal from the players, poor decision making on and off the pitch, lots of things. But what if the problem is actually with the country’s local league – the Premier League?

How could the Premier League be ruining the England national team, you ask? Well, come along with us.