ESPN FC has broken the news that the Football Association and the Premier League are in talks to make wholesale changes in an attempt to improve English teams chances in the Champions League.

If you want to back an English team to win the Champions League, then your best bet is Man City at 12/1; Chelsea are 22/1, and Arsenal are 33/1. Man Utd couldn’t even get through the group stage. Only Chelsea (2011-12) and Man Utd (2007-08) have won the competition in the past decade.

Casting an eye over the English national team picture is even more depressing. The World Cup victory on home soil in 1966 ranks as the country’s only success and they are 12/1 to win the 2016 European Championships despite coming through their group stage with a 100% win rate.

So what’s going on?