I agree with our Kiwi friend - surely if anything they need to try and get the big boys playing more English talent at the top level - not just picking a whole loan up and then sending them to a league with the likes of Luton and Stevenage in? These people probably dare not tell the Premier league what to do so feel they can mess around with the lower leagues... Beating such teams as above 5-0 every week isn't going to improve the players...
Yes UKIP are very talented, clever people, not a bit racist and can be relied on to turn up and vote regularly for what they believe in Europe. - oh and they don't overclaim epenses at all - not even for German wives / secretaries
Not a fan then Leonardo? Whilst acknowledging it's far from perfect I'm pro EU memeebrship and was a bit worried about the popularity they were beginning to court. They do seem to be doing a fine job of shooting themselves in the foot, the hand, the arm, the stomach etc etc.
If the measure of a party is overclaiming expenses, then that excludes both Labour and the Tories and any party that turned a blind eye to the behaviour of Cyril Smith and other sex-pests is clearly unreliable, then I wonder who is left to vote for - the Greens?
I think this conversation deserves its own thread as otherwise it is going to detract from the real subject here which is the FA's stupid proposal. Follow me over to the MEP thread if you want to
Sorry Leonardo and i totally agree. Without being flippant it might be worth Dan or H moving these posts over so ours don't attract others. I stand by my point that this is a cracking thread and hopefully we'll get more posts.
The only way for the England team to change is to suffer a complete catastrophe, and getting knocked out of the first stage of the Brazil World Cup won't be it. The team will have to come last or last but one in the next Euro qualifiers, Roy Hodgson will have to go and several FA committees will have to be replaced and or restructured - changing the chairman won't help, the whole organisation needs an overhaul. And even then the powers that be will propose a new raft of measures, talk a lot and eventually do nothing. The FA are still of the same cut as 50 years ago or 100 years ago. They need to be dragged into the 20th century, to start with, then 21st and turned into a modern professional business organisation. It cannot be a gentleman's club anymore.
Does anyone remember the huge storm after the last World Cup and getting stuffed by Germany? We even had Lineker doing a documentary about football in Germany & Spain - so what happened, absolutely **** all! I expect England to scrape through the group stages and go out straight away after - And I really do not care. My only hope is that crap band that follows England around playing The Great Escape and other ****e get locked up in some hell hole prison for years...sevens the bastards right for all the pain they have inflicted on us.
I think they are only allowed to do that with non-EU players.. I bet we'll end up just having managers sending youth players and squad members they don't want to these "B" games regardless of nationality. Some won't have the 20 British players required! Noticed none of the managers speaking in favour of it talked about how it would benefit England as such - just themselves and their youngsters in terms of getting "competitive" games - can see a Wenger or Mourinho kicking off when one of their young lads gets a nasty tackle from an aggressive lower league player. The trouble is the FA really care and want England to do well as it looks good - the PL and their clubs couldn't give a dam due to the money and demands involved. Think its too late as such but then again a few young players have come through at Liverpool and Southampton..
You should be worried about your play-off not trying to get on with us. Do one, and then never come back. Your were a WUM and now you've got a sting on your nose..scum.
When the boss of the PL says he's against it, then you know it's a bad idea: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27340856 This idea was just one part of the report - anyone know what else was in it?
Afraid not Barry Reading that only 32% of starters are English compared to 69% years ago misses the point. How many players are registered in the Premiership? Squads of say 30 x 20 clubs = 600 which means there should even now be 200 English players - and theoretically they are now playing against the cream of European if not World football week in week out. Playing against top class opposition should improve our players. The top ten international countries include Portugal, Switzerland and Greece - do these countries have 200 home grown players in competition against top class opposition week in week out? It is not about numbers - it is about coaching and training skills at grass roots level - at schools in particular - that is where we will solve the problem if ever there is to be a solution - not in tinkering with the league structure.
Couldn't agree more - even I, a humble volunteer-but-qualified-coach at grass roots level in Oz, can recognise the failings in the system in this country. And if it's obvious to me....
