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The dearth of good technical players in England was pointed out to me by a friend as we recently watched a footsal game. I know this topic has been done, dusted with only the Alan Shearers of this world to be convinced. But the technical level of the game in this country is in a shocking state.
I never played footsal, but heard about it around 1999 - a game developed in South America which emphasised the more technical aspects of football (played with a small flat ball, and penalties for successive fouls over the first 5). However, I was still rather shocked today to learn that England had only recently won their first international game, over the mighty Greece - after some pretty horrendous spankings.
I personally have no love for the FA in this country. Any organisation who put the likes of Mark Palios in charge, syphon off youth development money into money spinning Wembley, fail to win anything on the international scene (40 years and counting) and always are ready to shun the blame, will carry no favour with me. However if something isn't done soon - even the training academies of Arsenal (yes you read correctly) will not be able to save the national team in the next few years.
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