The New £100 Million Football Complex

[Bear60]

Will it make eventually make us as good as Spain ? Thoughts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -Park.html

[Blue Since 76]

Will it make eventually make us as good as Spain ? Thoughts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -Park.html

No. This is required and was a higher priority than a new Wembley, but it starts before you ever reach there. Have a look at the number of coaches Spain have compared to us - sort that together with the new innovation that perhaps 6 year olds shouldn't be playing 11 a side on a full size pitch and we may get somewhere.

Still think a 1% tax on the wages of all premier league players that's used for grass roots football would be more use. Train coaches properly, fund 3G all weather pitches, more inside facilities for winter and we might see something in 20 years. If nothing else, it might encourage more kids to take up football rather than only playing it on their PS3

[Bear60]

Will it make eventually make us as good as Spain ? Thoughts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -Park.html

No. This is required and was a higher priority than a new Wembley, but it starts before you ever reach there. Have a look at the number of coaches Spain have compared to us - sort that together with the new innovation that perhaps 6 year olds shouldn't be playing 11 a side on a full size pitch and we may get somewhere.

Still think a 1% tax on the wages of all premier league players that's used for grass roots football would be more use. Train coaches properly, fund 3G all weather pitches, more inside facilities for winter and we might see something in 20 years. If nothing else, it might encourage more kids to take up football rather than only playing it on their PS3

The other question is , where are all these top quality coaches going to come from like you said Spain have far more than us, they do say they are going to train coaches etc.

[Ted Hughes]

Will be great in the longterm. Will take quite a while to have a full effect, as will City's academy, but the main fact of all this is that the penny has finally dropped. We have been at the mercy of footballing Philistines for decades, both at club & international level. There has been an 'old boy's network' all handing each other jobs & keeping us in the dark ages.

This is the signal that, at last, that era is coming to an end. It took decades for us to get there with cricket & the seeds of us becoming a top team were sewn at academy level.

When we get our shit together in sport, we are as good as anybody. This is ths first step toward that.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

It depends entirely on what the penalty shootout facilities are like.

[Swales4ever]

Will be great in the longterm. Will take quite a while to have a full effect, as will City's academy, but the main fact of all this is that the penny has finally dropped. We have been at the mercy of footballing Philistines for decades, both at club & international level. There has been an 'old boy's network' all handing each other jobs & keeping us in the dark ages.

This is the signal that, at last, that era is coming to an end. It took decades for us to get there with cricket & the seeds of us becoming a top team were sewn at academy level.

When we get our shit together in sport, we are as good as anybody. This is ths first step toward that.

just let's hope that Luca Scapuzzi won't be appointed to superintend it, by then... ;)