niknokseagull
Give us a biscuit
After an incredible summer at the Olympics and Paralympics and Andy Murray's heroic victory in the US Open last night, we are truly witnessing a phenomenal period of success for British sport.
We have athletics clubs and velodromes, sailing clubs and boxing gyms apparently inundated with youngsters eager to join up.
We are told that the kids of today now have Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins and Jess Ennis as role models - perhaps helping us to be, and remain as, one of the strongest and most successful sporting nations for years to come.
It's hard not to agree that we are now reaping the benefit of years of financial support and investment in sport, particularly through the national lottery and a greater investment in the grass roots (I.e. facilities, venues, coaching, etc)
So when, when, when will those that run our national football structure finally admit that their model is a complete mess and has little hope of emulating the success we now see in other sporting disciplines?
Football will eat itself eventually. I love the Albion and I love football but a little piece of me wants to see some catastrophic financial failure occur to some element of the game because it's really the only way I can see anything changing. The only way 'football' might wake up and realise that directing a few of those many, many millions of pounds to the grass roots and schools and kids clubs and proper coaching development structures ....... just might mean we also stand a chance of seeing some international success in my lifetime.
If I see whatsisname Scudamore tell me again that we have the greatest league in the world, the most exciting, the most watched ....... well, those claims are all rather hollow now we've seen what real sporting achievement is all about.
We have athletics clubs and velodromes, sailing clubs and boxing gyms apparently inundated with youngsters eager to join up.
We are told that the kids of today now have Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins and Jess Ennis as role models - perhaps helping us to be, and remain as, one of the strongest and most successful sporting nations for years to come.
It's hard not to agree that we are now reaping the benefit of years of financial support and investment in sport, particularly through the national lottery and a greater investment in the grass roots (I.e. facilities, venues, coaching, etc)
So when, when, when will those that run our national football structure finally admit that their model is a complete mess and has little hope of emulating the success we now see in other sporting disciplines?
Football will eat itself eventually. I love the Albion and I love football but a little piece of me wants to see some catastrophic financial failure occur to some element of the game because it's really the only way I can see anything changing. The only way 'football' might wake up and realise that directing a few of those many, many millions of pounds to the grass roots and schools and kids clubs and proper coaching development structures ....... just might mean we also stand a chance of seeing some international success in my lifetime.
If I see whatsisname Scudamore tell me again that we have the greatest league in the world, the most exciting, the most watched ....... well, those claims are all rather hollow now we've seen what real sporting achievement is all about.
