22-03-2015, 21:52
Scudamore, the Premier League's Chief Sex Obsessive, says financing the grass roots game is not the Premiership's business. But if they did do that, then that's how they'd be finding players, rather than picking off the talent other countries improve and discover in both their own and developing countries.
Contrast the I'm-all-right-Jack attitude of the Premier League, with the wonderful man who Chesterfield's website featured celebrating his one hundredth birthday at the ground - Tom Brocklehurst. Tommy Brock' gave years and years of service to local amateur football ..... for nothing ..... it cost him. A more honest, decent man you'd never find. I'm delighted he's still going.
Even when the standard looks dire to the spectator, the local amateur game provides the opportunity not only for those who are ordinary to play the game, but also for developing talent to get a new experience. Because of it I got to play against men as a fifteen year old ...... and even if you're the most skilled player on the park there's loads you can learn from these guys that you'd never experience in youth football.
In France and Germany villages will still have their own teams, sometimes with excellent facilities. Here the game is slowly dying and the money at the top merely provides an illusion of success. Sometimes the truth bleeds through, like no teams in European quarter finals. But a Malaysian millionaire will buy somebody success and Sky will feed it through its subscriptions and the merry-go-round will be off again.
When you see not even perhaps the top German or French teams you'll hear about the eighteen year old making his debut, the nineteen year old keeper with first team games under his belt ....... and here we rave about Roy's tiny army of the few coming through to join Rooney and Sturridge and Hart. Why have we only one keeper in the whole country, could it be that any promising youngster won't get a chance at a decent level until he's 26? And will never have played against men until he's out of his teens.
If the money reached the bottom in football, the talent would rise to the surface and great men like Tommy Brocklehurst would have finally won!
Contrast the I'm-all-right-Jack attitude of the Premier League, with the wonderful man who Chesterfield's website featured celebrating his one hundredth birthday at the ground - Tom Brocklehurst. Tommy Brock' gave years and years of service to local amateur football ..... for nothing ..... it cost him. A more honest, decent man you'd never find. I'm delighted he's still going.
Even when the standard looks dire to the spectator, the local amateur game provides the opportunity not only for those who are ordinary to play the game, but also for developing talent to get a new experience. Because of it I got to play against men as a fifteen year old ...... and even if you're the most skilled player on the park there's loads you can learn from these guys that you'd never experience in youth football.
In France and Germany villages will still have their own teams, sometimes with excellent facilities. Here the game is slowly dying and the money at the top merely provides an illusion of success. Sometimes the truth bleeds through, like no teams in European quarter finals. But a Malaysian millionaire will buy somebody success and Sky will feed it through its subscriptions and the merry-go-round will be off again.
When you see not even perhaps the top German or French teams you'll hear about the eighteen year old making his debut, the nineteen year old keeper with first team games under his belt ....... and here we rave about Roy's tiny army of the few coming through to join Rooney and Sturridge and Hart. Why have we only one keeper in the whole country, could it be that any promising youngster won't get a chance at a decent level until he's 26? And will never have played against men until he's out of his teens.
If the money reached the bottom in football, the talent would rise to the surface and great men like Tommy Brocklehurst would have finally won!