Because any kid who runs 15 yards with the ball is yelled at and told to lump it up,it's the british way of "playing football"
That's why there is all sorts of rough tacklers and hoofers and not much flair.
But I know loads and loads of people my age and younger who have so much flair.
Even in the current England side you have Young, Johnson, Henderson, G. Johnson all capable of dribbling and showing great control. None of them you'd describe as an attacking midfielder/second striker type player though. Young at a push.
Spain have an abundance of them, although they often play further back. Germany have tonnes. Italy have some. All South American teams do. Essentially almost every team does apart from teams in the British Isles. We can produce a plethora of box-to-box midfielders and pace-merchant wingers; loads of solid, no-nonsense central defenders, and strong, powerful forwards. But no creative players. Strange.
I think for some reason there's an English attitude of believing slowing the play down is always a bad thing. People want to watch teams playing at a tempo as high as possible at all times and so a playmaker doesn't really fit in that.
But you can play with a playmaker type player on the counter - look at Germany at the World Cup. I'm suggesting England should be producing Alonso/Xavi/Fabregas types (we've got enough young players who can pass the ball well and keep composure - Wilshere, Henderson etc), more in the mold of Ozil/Aquilani/Pastore.
