Why on earth would Woy not resign? It may not be largely his fault but where does he think he can

[Mo Britain less Europe]

take England?

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

appoint a young manager, even if he is totally untried. This mediocrity is never going to change without something radical happening.

['Neg]

[Ben.]

[Nicosia Gooner]

BUT fans must be patient and accept that this underachievement period will continue for at least another 10 years, maybe more

[slow&low]

you need a complete change of set up of youth development.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[slow&low]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

measures. It's not football that needs reforming, it's the country.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Imagine resigning when you're on £3.5m per year :hehe: You'd have to have the IQ of a potato.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[slow&low]

The Dutch volleyball team won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics because they changed the whole setup of volleyball in Holland. From mediocre (or even poorer) to olympic medal in about 8 years. It can be done without reforming the whole country.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Luis Anaconda]

over the past 10 years or so?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Nicosia Gooner]

Europe

[slow&low]

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Luis Anaconda]

It isn't going to happen overnight

[Snin]

won by drug taking

[Mo Britain less Europe]

competition from cheaper players and a reluctance of English footballers to go abroad, a persistence in encouraging physicality over technique and a continued perception that since football is/was a working class sport it should be played by working class players with no intellect and the inability to lead clean lives whilst they are playing.

[The Tony]

[PSRB]

fancy we'll be much better in next couple of tournaments

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Sorry. That was just such an 'England' thing to say, p.

[Luis Anaconda]

Look at the age group levels - the U17s won the European Championship recently - the last team that won it had Ross Barkley in it. You could argue that the structural change that needs to happen is to take power away from the clubs and have a more central structure a la Clairefontaine in France. That is never going to happen

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Luis Anaconda]

I am of course

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There you go again.

They're good lads, but they're not world cup winners, p.

[Supermac1976]

until there's more investment into facilities at the grass roots level.

[redgunamo]

[PSRB]

offers an awful lot more than Sterling

[Luis Anaconda]

[Supermac1976]

Quote:



"There is a real myth about the true number of English coaches out there," said head of FA learning Jamie Houchen.

"In the last 10 years, England has delivered more grass-roots coaching qualifications than any other European country.

"UEFA deals in A and B licences for coaches. At the FA we have developed our own pathway which we have refined for our own needs - Level One and Two certificates - but UEFA don't include the latter within their figures.

"That's why we have close to 70,000 coaches at a level which slips under the UEFA radar.

"An English coach was sometimes perceived as a cheap babysitter.

"We've had to turn around that culture and I'm confident we stand shoulder to shoulder with any European nation in terms of the number of coaches we educate each year."

Read more at http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/246073.html#MwOCL Mk4uuDP8dWj.99 (http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/246073.html#MwOCLMk4uuDP8dWj.99)

[Red N White Army]

[redgunamo]

Winning the World Cup has nothing to do with grassroots football. Not really.

[Pokster]

and after you get the level 1 you can take level 2 or you can take a youth coaching set of course if you are planning to stay in the younger age groups

[Supermac1976]

[Pokster]

which is why the fat lump couldn't get high enough to head it in

['Neg]

[redgunamo]

[Nicosia Gooner]