Thursday 18 November 2010

This from a Guardian user:

Before the media blame Capello or the players shouldn't we be pointing the finger at the FA.

Wasn't the England- France game a victory for a centralised development system? The French FA took responsibility for youth development in France with Claire Fontaine. The English FA disbanded their centralised development system called Lilleshall that produced players like Scholes, Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, Defoe, Fowler, Sol Campbell, Ferdinand, Carragher and McManaman. Then expected clubs owen by foreign people to produce English players for them and then also didn't realise there are only 6 or 7 clubs with high standard academies out of 92 teams.

When most English team in the 4 divisions play long ball football, relying on clubs who all have their different ideas about football was a mistake. You wouldn't get the government making Tesco in charge of the department of Health, because they would know their agenda would be to help themselves and not the government and clubs are no different.

I seriously think the FA are incapable of following any of the successful European development models of France, Spain, Holland, Italy and Germany. These countries have what England don't and this is football administrators, with high level professional football experience. England doesn't figures like Plantini, Hierro, Butragueno, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Zoff and Roberto Baggio all top players that were football adminstrators in their countries. English football is too working class, so you have top football players without the education to be adminstrators, so the important adminstration jobs in football go to Businessmen and TV Executives, who are amateurs and offer no greater insight than the average football fan on the street.

In 2000 when Germany had youth development problems, because they had top former players with the experience, insight and intelligence in important administrations positions in German football, they rectified these problems within one generation. English football doesn't have the brains, experience or insight at the top of the FA, so England still suffer from the age old problems they had 20 or 30 years ago.

The media cannot complain about the England result, the team was full of players media demanded should be in the team. I never thought Carroll was an international player and if he was born a few years earlier he would never be a Premier League player and the only reason he gets any hype is because the youth development system is terrible and he is the best England can produce now.

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