No Fixed Abode No WUMing.
It's not just coaching which is a problem. People always moan about the poor facilities in this Country and say it's a major reason we have so few World Class players, that's nonsense. The reason is more to do with our lifestyle. For instance, many third World Countries are catching us up rapidly. These children do not have the distraction of Playstations etc and spend every possible minute of the day playing football. They live and breath it. The same with the coaches.
Over here, as soon as a player is in the Youth Side, they're bigging themselves up on Twitter when they could be perfecting their skills out on the practice pitch. Players/coaches over here want the attention and limelight through social media and without actually achieving anything in the game. Joey Barton is a prime example. Tweeting all the time instead of improving his game.
Clubs need to emphasise the importance of practising - instead of just doing the 'minimal' required through training sessions at the club. It's a fundamental lifestyle change which is the key issue.
Joey Barton is a poor example - he's far too old to improve by practice now. The "golden age" in youth development is 7 or 8 - if you can get a kid then you can potentially teach them to be a great player, before the school coaches and parents have instilled them with bad ideas and made them play too many games ("lump it forward to the big lad, boy")....
But the crux of your argument, that the national lifestyle is all wrong, may be true, but what does football do about that? Affluence and the number of playstations in existence is outside their control - all they can do is implement a scheme that improves coaching for elite kids, ensures it's consistent and that there's enough of it to allow as much of kids' potential to be delivered as possible. And still that's not good enough .....
Or are you saying that because other countries can do better then we shouldn't even bother to try and make things better?
