Gareth Southgate has a squad to select this week, so nobody will be more painfully aware that English players are desperately short of Premier League action.
Only 57 of the 220 players to start the last round of fixtures in our top flight qualify for Southgate’s team — and six of them are goalkeepers.
The percentages tighten even further among the so-called elite, the Premier League’s traditional Big Six. Tottenham, not long ago a haven for English footballers, and Liverpool started with one each. The Manchester clubs both with two.
Fulham started at Arsenal on Saturday without a single player available to Southgate.