Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[john e]

Looks like Faulkners influence is rubbing off on the England aswell now he's getting higher up the FA ladder

Is it really a wonder, when you have non footballing people at the F.A, that the national side is so poor?  It should be run by footballers, for footballers. People ready to tackle some of the difficult issues and not sit on the fence like splinters in his bum Trevor Brooking!! The F.A. is a complete joke. Sorry, off topic. Rant over. Keane get on with it or bigger off.

Ex footballers I would surmise wouldn't make good administrators of the game, most of them have trouble putting two sentences together let alone run the game

When was the last time a press conference started on time, never, managers and players can't even organise themselves enough to turn up on time,
they might know about playing the game because that's what they did, but that's about it, they are generally uneducated thicktons,

Have you not seen the cream of the crop doing punditry on the World Cup, and you think it's them that should be running the FA, ha ha, you think it's a joke now, if ex players were running the show it would be kamikaze time

[Steve67]

Looks like Faulkners influence is rubbing off on the England aswell now he's getting higher up the FA ladder

Is it really a wonder, when you have non footballing people at the F.A, that the national side is so poor?  It should be run by footballers, for footballers. People ready to tackle some of the difficult issues and not sit on the fence like splinters in his bum Trevor Brooking!! The F.A. is a complete joke. Sorry, off topic. Rant over. Keane get on with it or bigger off.

Ex footballers I would surmise wouldn't make good administrators of the game, most of them have trouble putting two sentences together let alone run the game

When was the last time a press conference started on time, never, managers and players can't even organise themselves enough to turn up on time,
they might know about playing the game because that's what they did, but that's about it, they are generally uneducated thicktons,

Have you not seen the cream of the crop doing punditry on the World Cup, and you think it's them that should be running the FA, ha ha, you think it's a joke now, if ex players were running the show it would be kamikaze time

I saw the other day whilst watching the cricket they have put togegher a think tank type committee with the likes of Mike Brearley, Steve Waugh and Mike Gatting.  they will start to get the game sorted in the same way that I would like football sorted.  There are equally as many intelligent footballers out there as there are thick one's. they do not all have to come from the premiership either, get rid of the lack of equality in the game.  Why can't the likes of Ian Taylor, Gareth Southgate, Clark Carlisle etc get involved? It doesn't have to be the money chasing thick players.  Greg Dyke clearly is an administrator who doesn't know football.  Why the hell is he in charge of the game? I agree with you about the pundits and the Talk Sport shite, other than Alvin Martin.  All struggle to articulate, but there are good one's out there who would have the ability to see past their wallet.  Paul Faulkner should not be having a say in how the game moves forward, unless he is bringing sponsorship in to help to pay for the changes in the game.

[Chris Jameson]

Unfortunately I didn't go so didn't get to hear the answer when there was a charity sporting questions and answers sporting dinner and evening in Harrogate which was organised by Danny Mills.

The question Mark Chapman asked on my behalf was why was why the task force contained the likes of Mills and Dyke, neither of whom ever won anything in the way of titles and trophies, and didn't call on the likes of Clive Woodward, Duncan Fletcher, Dave Brailsford etc ? I'm told he had a face like thunder and waffled for 20 minutes, unfortunately it was my sister in law who reported it and she hadn't a clue who he was do didn't listen!

[john e]

Duncan fletcher, Braisford and Woodward, the 3 names you mention and not one a ex footballer

Newby, cricketers are a million times more interesting and knowledgable about their game than footballers, maybe because generally they come from a more educated background, I don't know
But the difference between ex cricketers and ex footballers is immense

[Chris Jameson]

The point I was making is that they were all involved in making their teams the best in the world, surely they could contribute more than any ex Norwich, Charlton, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Derby, Man City and Hull City full back without a medal to his name ever could? Why did they all have to be ex footballers and a former TV executive?

[Toronto Villa]

Looks like Faulkners influence is rubbing off on the England aswell now he's getting higher up the FA ladder

Is it really a wonder, when you have non footballing people at the F.A, that the national side is so poor?  It should be run by footballers, for footballers. People ready to tackle some of the difficult issues and not sit on the fence like splinters in his bum Trevor Brooking!! The F.A. is a complete joke. Sorry, off topic. Rant over. Keane get on with it or bigger off.

You make that statement as if there are no non football background execs in any of the other football association around the world. The key is finding the balance between what they do well and what they are willing others to do that they are not experts in. England simply has not found that balance. It has nothing to do with Faulkner in that regard.

[Steve67]

So, Toronto, England have found the balance? No. Categorically no. This is why it needs to change and emphasises my point.

[Lucky Eddie]

Duncan fletcher, Braisford and Woodward, the 3 names you mention and not one a ex footballer

Newby, cricketers are a million times more interesting and knowledgable about their game than footballers, maybe because generally they come from a more educated background, I don't know
But the difference between ex cricketers and ex footballers is immense

Haven't you heard Darren Gough on talk sport?

[Toronto Villa]

So, Toronto, England have found the balance? No. Categorically no. This is why it needs to change and emphasises my point.

did I say they found the balance?

[brian green]

On one of the shows produced by my son he had as judges an England football international and an England cricket international, both household names.   The football player was head and shoulders the more articulate and responsive.   It is not a question of background or education or even of upbringing, it is the intelligence.   Would you say Ian Wright is thick?   Never in a million years.   Would you say Gareth Southgate could galvanize an FA committee?   Never in a million years.

[LeeB]

Every decision this shower of arseholes make is with an eye on their own pockets, or the pockets of those already making the most.

Until that changes, there's fuck all chance of us ever winning anything. So, basically, there's fuck all chance of us ever winning anything.

[brian green]

You are getting the Darren Woolley touch Lee.   Summing it up correctly with verbal minimalism.

[Legion]

I agree.

[Ron Manager]

Back on topic. I get the feeling Keane is not coming to Villa Park.

[LeeB]

You are getting the Darren Woolley touch Lee.   Summing it up correctly with verbal minimalism.

Good post Brian.