Trevor Brooking is retiring from his job as director of football development at the FA after the World Cup. Good. ****er.
Wasn't it originally supposed to be 30K and he put the kibosh on it unless it was at most 25K with him personally wanting 15K?
Apart from us and the KC he was ****ing useless at his job and did nowt for foorball. Back in November 2007, I challenged Brooking, and any youth football administrator who fancied it, to a game. The goals were to be 3.057metres (10.029ft) high and 9.174m (30.098ft) wide; the length of the pitch was to be 150.4m (165 yards) and the width 112.80m (124 yards), making the total playing surface 16,800m sq; the penalty area alone would stretch for 20.68m (23 yards). Despite the increased dimensions, the teams would remain 11-a-side. Expanded by ratio, this equated to the travesty of the average 11-year-old playing on a full-sized pitch, a corruption of common sense that occurs throughout the country each weekend. Within days, Brooking's office proposed a chat. I took along Rob, No 2 son, who was a 10-year-old goalkeeper playing for Redbridge district on a man's pitch at the time. He wished to know why so much of his goal was physically impossible to reach. It didn't seem fair. Brooking was nice, understanding, but talked like a man who was remote from the problem, rather than poised to conquer it. He talked committees, and professional game boards, and Rob soon bore the look of a boy who couldn't believe he had skipped double geography for this. Brooking knew something had to be done, so why didn't he do something? Now, almost three years on, he has. He has produced a booklet called 'The Future Game' that, in essence, leaves youth football mired in its past. 'Is there anything in there on pitch sizes?' I asked the gentleman at the FA. 'No,' he replied. 'That's a rather abstract concept.' For the full article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...r-Brooking-realise-kids-lost-land-giants.html Just a yes man in a blazer who went along for the ride without ever having the intention or ability to change anything.
Yet another useless out of touch southerner who, in all probability, will be replaced by another useless out of touch southerner....nothing changes at The FA!
Think the FA would release funding for our new ground but only if it was 15,000 or less as they didn't think we'd fill it of it was bigger. So he and they refused to release the funding as they deemed 15,000 to be about as big as we'd ever need. Typical M25er- only ever played for one London club, only ever worked for the FA in London.
Im pretty certain he had the final say with regard to any sport England funding and at 30K he refused to sign it off. We sneaked it through at 25K but he wanted 15K.
Thought so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Brooking. Brooking was Chair of the Eastern Region Council for Sport and Recreation from 1987 until 1997, and between 1999 and 2002 he was chairman of Sport England. Brooking was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 2001.
Wasn't the threat not just against us, but a block on funding for the region if we ignored his wishes? I think I'm right in saying that the last time Brooking played here, it was in front of a bigger crowd than the one he was trying to limit us to.
Pretty sure they gave us nowt because of the difference in estimated capacity need. If he'd have prevailed, we'd never have got out of League One.
