from all the attention arsenal have been getting and all these debates about english football i can honestly feel a real turn around coming. i think within the next few years we will see a change in english football, from sunday league teams straight thru to the premership. it has to happen, our style doesnt work, i remember being in school and my school coach telling me whenever i got the ball (i played right back) to just blast it back up towards the forwards. silly really. but i do feel this will change soon, we have have so many talented youngsters in this country, if we change our format just a bit, we would be so much better. we will never be a spain or barcelona. im not saying that. we live in a cold country and half the time its just to torturis(spelling) to be playing all day. but i think we really need to change things especially from school days. i dread to think what a talent like wilshere would have been wasted if he grew up in stoke learning the long ball game.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thefootballtacticsblog/2011/02/arsenal_fans_need_to_get.html People have excuses, this is BBC's.
yeh, i mean im not an arsenal fan who thinks football should just be played our way. that would be boring, i like different styles etc. i just think this country should change our approach to teaching kids how to play. cos the way we do it now doesnt work. btw. i hate that articale. so stupid, he basically calls arsenal fans snobs. growing up in n. london i cant remember hanging around many snobs.
Thanks for the link Vela. Alistair McGowan clearly has a chip on his shoulder about Arsenal fans, either that or it was a slow news day for the BBC. His patronising article says more about his disdain for Arsenal than it does any genuine journalistic insight. Of course football fans are going to boo a contentious tackle and say nasty things about the opposition, that's the pantomime of football or is he too much of a snob to see that? 'With a mutual respect shown by the two managers is it now possible that their supporters can do the same?' perhaps he is the one who needs to come down off of his high horse and realise that if his writing wants respect then he needs to ditch his own partisan approach.
That article annoys me... even the line where he goes "exactly a year ago since ramsey broke his leg". Ramsey didn't break his leg!! Shawcross broke it. Awful journalism, one sided. But its the BBC, like the rest of the media, they're all for teams like stoke and bham...s
Apparently there is a lot more emphasis on skill these days with young English players. Hence the likes of Wilshire, MacEachran and Ravel Morrison coming through.
