Comments on: Petition for grassroots overhaul for the FA

By: Captain

Captain — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:48:53 +0000

The FA need a big change, and the number of non-english playing in our top league needs to change too.

http://www.keelbyunited.co.uk

David.

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:23:52 +0000

It is clear that nothing will change with the FA. It is too cozy–an ‘old boys’ network whose major interest is to stay on. Thus the only answer the punters have is to take direct action.—–boycott all future England games unil real changes are made.

By: stevie

stevie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:17:26 +0000

read this excellent blog from the Yahoo website. Some surprising facts!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/jim-white/article/22315/

By: Marti Hawkins

Marti Hawkins — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:42:34 +0000

The main problem with the English Grassroots is that the best coaches, coach the adults. Level 1 is all thats required to coach kids!! We need to reverse that quickly and get the best coaches paid more through a grassroots initiative to go out into communities, to youth clubs and teams, and actually coach the kids properly. The problem is also that teams are still results based. Parents only want “little Johnny” playing for a team that wins. I dont know who wants winners more, kids or parents. We have to change to whole pyschology of thinking within the youth game or it will only get worse. By the way I have coached a team from under 9′s through to under 15′s, I am as disilllusioned as most cos alot of what I have been saying has happened to me, players leaving, parents moaning. I have decided this year to hang up my whistle, I no longer have the desire to coach players who only believe that winning now is the most important thing.

Good luck in the quest for change, I for one wont hold my breath

By: Steve Cavey

Steve Cavey — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:17:11 +0000

Great idea and keep spreading the word.

Steve Cavey – Worplesdon Phoenix FC

By: David

David — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:16:11 +0000

So now maybe we have it!. The Capello index–what a morale sapping event. Am I correct but I hear the FA want to appoint Lord Triesman as Capello’s English coach. God pass me the brandy.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:18:02 +0000

I support this whole heartedly. There is so many areas we must improve in, we need to evolve, seriously. I’m dismayed by our top English pro’s not being able to use both feet and hang on to the ball under pressure. We really are bad at retaining the ball at times on the International stage. Its embarrassing. You can see this problem in all its glory in our lack of a quality left sided midfielder. You have to go back to Waddle and Italia 90 to see a properly balanced midfield. 20years ago, thats rediculous. If a football mad country of 50+million can’t produce a decent left mid something is wrong, something is very wrong. EPL formed in 92, Hmmmmm……. English players in top flight ever decreasing since, Hmmmm……..

The FA are useless – I mostly agree.
The EPL and English clubs (especially top4) want quick fix, which generally means foreign import over young english player – I agree.
Perhaps we are not the most gifted of nations, weather and all that but our top pro’s should be able to use both feet and shield the ball properly…. am I right or am I right?

If you always do what you always did, you will get what you always got…..

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:49:16 +0000

Please correct me if I am wrong, but were not the managers of the last four of the World cup all nationals? I. e. the manager of Holland Dutch, Spain Spanish etc.

There really is a lesson here. Culture is complex and you cannot penetrate it or understand it in just a year or so. We need an Englishman to manage England.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:25:46 +0000

I must live in la la land!!
I find out from Sky sports that Beckham blaims the players!! There was not one squad player who played at a top level. So clearly there was a global factor at play–tiredness? Give me strength–Barry had not played for a month, Cole about the same, Heskey rarely starts. Does anyone have the stats on just how many starts each player had during the last season? So what global factors were at play?—-The manager? The FA?–please name others.
Then I hear Allerdyce wants the job. God!! the inventor of anti-football himself. God help us, with the FA in charge, he might just get the job!!!!
Then Heskey announces his retirement from international football–surely an unnecessary announcement.
Then finally Brooking is going to help Capello. Rather like asking Laurel to help Hardy!! Brooking has been in charge of player development yet we have not the slightest inkling of an English player likely to have an impact on the world.
The world is surreal.

By: mickeymarbles

mickeymarbles — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:47:11 +0000

Some stats against Germany. When you look at the stats below, we had the edge over The Germans in every department apart from goals. I know this obviously doesn’t reflect what a shambles we were but just thought i’d share it with you. Mickey MArbles. Part time blogger and professional moansmith.

Germany Stat England
17 Shots 19
7 Shots on goal 9
4 Goals Scored 1
7 Fouls Committed 6
6 Fouls Suffered 7
4 Corner kicks 6
3 Free kicks Shots (scored) 5
0 / 0 Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) 0 / 0
4 Offsides 2
0 Own Goals 0
1 Yellow cards 1
0 Second yellow card and red card 0
0 Red Cards 0
32 Actual playing time 34
48% Possession (%) 52%

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:16:36 +0000

You have my support – sign me up.

A couple of extra thoughts…

- Out with the old pre-madonnas and in with young football hungry players
- Out with and Italian manager and in with an English national
- Deal with the press and inspire the public by letting the football do the talking
- Introduce salary caps
- Introduce futsal to more centers up and down the country
- Give the foreigners a run for their money with intelligent English football players (not tough nuts like Terry & co).

Neil

Writer

ps: can you set up a proper petition form for this?

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:53:08 +0000

I didn’t say that a team of top quality players, but, I do say if they were put together as a team and not a group of ego’s then we might have beaten the Germans. The Germans and the Spanish are team, not stars! That’s our problem