Your right, its what happens when racial stereotypes and sporting ideology get married and have a kid together and it has been done for decades. You know those very physical attributes youve mentioned also describes English/British football to a tee.
, flair players have always been held in low regard/not trusted in England by the coaches, especially at national team level. Even the players who come over from foreign leagues the first thing they always mention is the pace, power, strength differences to the English league compared to the one they have come from. Like I said youre right, but there is an element of where athleticism and size has been put on such a higher pedestal over tekkers on all levels of sport in this country for so long and unfortunately its been indoctrinated into peoples thinking one way or another. If youve grew up playing kids sunday football, schools football or sunday pub team football, you'll know exactly what i mean.