I think maybe things are getting better in the EPL.
But as long as I have memories of Joey Barton, Roy Keane, Martin Taylor, Vinnie Jones, Ryan Shawcross, Ben Thatcher, Duncan Ferguson and even glamor players like John Terry, Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling and Kevin Davies, then I think of late savage lunges on a player dribbling past them as a British style.
It hurts England at the international level: the “physical” EPL killed Gazza, almost destroyed Michael Owen at an early age, even affected the maniacal Rooney, who was always exhausted in the summer tournaments.