After yet another defeat by Arsenal, Reading manager Steve Coppell has once again demanded that English clubs should be forced by the Premier League to develop better English players.

Mr. Coppell has asked Reading Trading Standards to look into some recent transactions involving English Arsenal players. "Arsenal are a bloody disgrace. Over the last few years we had Matthew Upson on loan and then they sold us James Harper and Steve Sidwell. They knew at the time they sold them to us that they were not good enough to play in their first team."

However, the Reading boss has denied that his position was dictated by xenophobia "Far from it. If the big teams were forced to field a minimum number of English players then perhaps we'd have a chance against them. Let's face it any team playing English players is at a huge disadvantage. Why do you think I've only got eleven of them in my squad of 31?"