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Sky Sports News were saying yesterday that Blackpool had requested an away fixture first because they dont think they’ll get their new temp. away stand sorted in time for the 14th Aug. They better pull their fingers out ……….
Some of it, I suppose, might be down to the fact that we have a “Centre of Excellence” and not an official youth “Academy”. Therefore, we cant do what the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton, Man City etc do and have 500 kids playing for us, throughout all the age groups, hoping that one might turn out half decent.
I wouldnt have thought we could, at the present time, afford the £15m or so it costs to built a separate youth Academy pitches, dorms for a load of foreign kids to live in etc.
There are quite a few Premiership clubs who have, and continue to throw money at their Academies, even boasting that they are “among the best Academy facilities in Europe”. Yet what are they producing despite having five-star facilities ? Perhaps one player here and there who makes half a dozen appearances from the bench before being sent to some Championship or League 1 club after they’ve been exposed as not being good enough even for the teams down the lower end of the Premiership.
At present, with the very odd exception, the Adacemy production lines around Englands big clubs, and the self professed big clubs, has ground to a halt. They need to look at themselves, find out the reasons why, and address said reasons, instead of pissing money up the wall building these five star white elephant facilities.
Yeah, and how many of those have been in a World Cup whilst playing for us? There’s about 10 at first glance that haven’t.Above my post CL said he made it 21 who have gone to the World Cup.
Now i’m presuming (and i may be very wrong ….but i don’t think i am, i’m rarely wrong ;) ) that he is meaning 21 players who have played for us at some point and gone to the World Cup at some point. Not necessarily gone to the World Cup while a player here.
Kavanagh
Valencia
Camara
Jamie Lawrence
Jason Scotland
Jeff Kenna
Aghahowa
Kilbane
Melchiot
King
Kapo
Frandsen
Olembe
Henhoz
Todorov——————
To answer the question, yes i was bored.
Couple of questionable ones in there though.
50/50 chance of being right i suppose.
Which are better odds than i’d normally give you on being right about something.
Have you totally ignored my last post Mutty?Of course he has ignored it. Thats what he does when he cant twist something into some anti-Latics drivel, just ignores them and sticks fingers in his ears and pretends he never saw it in the first place.
How come you cant wear anything to do with St George :?:
Waters Edge in Appley Bridge are offering free booze all night if England get to the final and you’ve been there to watch all the previous England games.
You can bring in a replacement up to 24 hours before your first game.
Trevor Sinclair replaced Danny Murphy a couple of days before WC2002 started because of Murphy breaking his foot in training a few days before the first game.
Warriors fans throwing coins and spitting at the Leeds players after they scored the winning try too. :roll:
Linesman even got hit with a plastic lunch box :lol:
Dont Borussia Dortmund have the 2nd or 3rd highest average attendance in world football – behind Barca ?
Sure he wont mind the DW with 14,000 on, on a wet Tuesday night in February. ;)
I’m sure the more pampered Premiership fans would love that away end at Bloomfield Road.
£28 they were charging away fans this season too.
On loan from Watford at Skoda Xanthi F.C.in the Greek top division.
Wonder if he gets a company car.
