Football FanCast Columist Matt Williams discusses all Englad Aston Villa and his views on the tabloids and why this can only be good news for England football.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand about the British tabloid press, it’s the way that they make such a big deal out of absolutely everything. A bit of rain and suddenly ‘Britain is about drown’, a bit of sun and we’re facing ‘the worst heat-wave ever and will all melt’.

Even the back-pages suffer from it. A player says that he’d quite like to win the next game and all of a sudden he’s sending out a ‘rallying call’ ahead of a ‘must-win encounter‘.

These days a footballer can’t even talk about a possible transfer without his words being taken all out of proportion.

But in amongst their usual drivel today, The Sun has actually sensationalised something that I think is worth sensationalising.

It read: “You’re never gonna believe this... but our foreigner-filled Premier League actually contains a club that can field an All-England XI!”

That’s right, after the signings of Luke Young and Nicky Shorey, Martin O’Neill can field an Aston Villa side that reads: Stuart Taylor, Luke Young, Zat Kinght, Curtis Davies, Nicky Shorey, Wayne Routledge, Nigel Reo-Coker, Craig Gardner, Steve Sidwell, Gareth Barry, Ashley Young and Gabby Agbonlahor .

All good players, all with some sort of International experience, and for once, not just us a newspaper scraping the barrel in order to find a story. And whilst I’ll admit the influence of some of Villa’s foreign imports is huge (the importance of John Carew and Martin Laursen last season cannot go unnoticed), this can only be a good thing for English football.

So maybe before we go on moaning about foreigners ruining the game, and introducing some kind of quota system, let us look at teams like Aston Villa and Manchester United (who fielded six British players in the Champions League final) and realise that with a good management system in place, Premiership teams can be part of the best league in the world AND have a number of British players, rather than having to choose between one or the other.