The Europa league stress has been a new problem of the last 2-3 years maybe, since in the old uefa cup we never had that crazy situation where for example teams from england who were knocked out of the champ league 1st round - had to drop back into the europa tournament.
So you add stress that to the useless carling cup & no winter break & the big club english players (united, chelsea, pool, city, gunners, spurs) play an unnecessary amount of football. And it should highlight why the fa has to make a change - no point fighting uefa.
I wouldn't really consider foreign players in the league at the big clubs so much like mata or past foreign legends like henry, fabregas, vieira, bergkamp, drogba etc etc because they didn't grow up in this system & most of them didn't stay in england forever but went away to less intense leagues at some point or played in before in such en route to playing in the premiership.
Mata although due to club & country commitments hasn't had much of a break in the last 3 years indeed, has just had one full season in england. He was at valencia in much less intense spain league most of time - so compared to someone like walcott, lampard, gerrard who have played in england there entire careers would not have played as much football/exerted as much energy as those blokes i'd wager.
