Your views on Trevor Brookings coments on state of FA and English Football?

Answer 1

Brooking's comments on political infighting at the FA, and the youth set-up not producing are spot on.
Interesting when such a famous England international such as Brooking comes out and says the country's players are not technically good enough.
He should know wht he is talking about as he played at one of the best academies for football... West Ham!

Answer 2

Not often I would agree with a gooner, but I do agree with Highburybooks (is that referring to how quiet the atmosphere was at Highbury aka 'the library"?) - Brooking is correct that young talent is not being developed - part of the problem is teams such as Arsenal who rely on bringing in only talent from overseas (the last Britsh player they bought through was Cole, and only stuck with him as he was exceptional, where as all their other young British talent has fled to other teams just to get a game). The answer to produce more British talent, and give them a chance to develop, would be to limit the number of foreign players a team may have in the squad, but this would fly in the face of EU laws, so practice will continue as is.

Answer 3

If that is what he says, he is right. The truth is that England never played good football, therefore, they can't win. Beckham was one of the few players who played very well, too bad he was a choker, and didn't care about playing after a couple of years. There was another player, I don't remember his name, starts with a G, I think, that was a wonderful player. I wonder what happened to him. They win the cup in 66 because Charlton, a winning player like few others, carried them. England always plays with a team spirit, self sacrifice and dynamic, but that's it. The only way they know how to score, is centering the ball and hoping that somebody will head it in.

Answer 4

and what did Trevor Brookings say?