The years have caught up with me and being the ripe old age of 24 I see international football in a different way than I used too.
When your a young kid say 8 for example when you watched England you used to go into like a dream state.
They were your hero's, playing for your country. Even at a seriously young age you could understand what it meant to a nation. By the way your family or friends acted prior to a game. There was excitement but also tension. A mixture of feelings which almost always ended in chaos.
I think as a young child you can pick up this passion for not just international football but sport in general. It gets passed down through generations. Although as people will tell me there are some exceptions, myself possibly included.
Now I see international football especially in England as a weakness. There is a lack of focus on the international aspects of the game. Do we keep employing foreign managers for our top English teams or do we need to suffer set backs to learn, if we are going to produce top talent for the English game?
Can England or I spread the question wider, the UK produce consistent world class players? I say no. There has been many arguments regarding our international game and how we don't have enough young talent playing in our domestic leagues. This would give greater food for thought to the manager of the national team at the time. The manager of whichever UK nation will never a crop of 'world class' talent to choose from because the teams they play on consist mostly of foreign players. Never there own kinsmen.
An international side from the UK will have one or two outstanding players for a period. An example will be Gareth Bale. He will be around the Welsh set up for years to come but he needs players around him. He can't do everything on his own like he did at Tottenham a few years back.
Teams need to be producing young British players and not just releasing them. Give them time and energy. Money is being taken out of football at grassroots level when it should be going in. Where do people think these players come from.
The United Kingdom will have no international football set up if we keep to these terms. Spectators are gradually losing intrest in what used to be such a passionate family oriented time. Times are changing can international football change.
When your a young kid say 8 for example when you watched England you used to go into like a dream state.
They were your hero's, playing for your country. Even at a seriously young age you could understand what it meant to a nation. By the way your family or friends acted prior to a game. There was excitement but also tension. A mixture of feelings which almost always ended in chaos.
I think as a young child you can pick up this passion for not just international football but sport in general. It gets passed down through generations. Although as people will tell me there are some exceptions, myself possibly included.
Now I see international football especially in England as a weakness. There is a lack of focus on the international aspects of the game. Do we keep employing foreign managers for our top English teams or do we need to suffer set backs to learn, if we are going to produce top talent for the English game?
Can England or I spread the question wider, the UK produce consistent world class players? I say no. There has been many arguments regarding our international game and how we don't have enough young talent playing in our domestic leagues. This would give greater food for thought to the manager of the national team at the time. The manager of whichever UK nation will never a crop of 'world class' talent to choose from because the teams they play on consist mostly of foreign players. Never there own kinsmen.
An international side from the UK will have one or two outstanding players for a period. An example will be Gareth Bale. He will be around the Welsh set up for years to come but he needs players around him. He can't do everything on his own like he did at Tottenham a few years back.
Teams need to be producing young British players and not just releasing them. Give them time and energy. Money is being taken out of football at grassroots level when it should be going in. Where do people think these players come from.
The United Kingdom will have no international football set up if we keep to these terms. Spectators are gradually losing intrest in what used to be such a passionate family oriented time. Times are changing can international football change.
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