Premier League must change or England will suffer, says Dyke


LONDON (Reuters) - English football's new head Greg Dyke has painted a potentially bleak future for the country's national team unless the spiralling influence of foreign players in the Premier League can be curtailed.

In a wide-ranging speech, the newly-appointed chairman of the Football Association said on Wednesday he was setting up a commission to investigate the decline of the number of English players in "the most successful league in the world".

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