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Football Development In Birmingham & The West Mids; is very poor or is it me?
Topic Started: Dec 21 2010, 08:33 AM (442 Views)
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Alex Govan
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Dec 31 2010, 03:25 AM
The Concerned Steve bruce
Dec 21 2010, 07:21 PM
Birmingham has a LOT of gifted young kids playing football, trust me on that one. but actually getting those kids off the parks and into academies is a different thing

some players i've played with and against i've been amazed they have never looked for a career in football



i include myself  :break:

Scouts don't trawl Parks and Recs anymore.

To watch school football matches they have to be registered via the CPA - - £250 per police area.

I have a nephew who is very good ( I'm told) in a badly organised Sunday League - but it is an unnofficial league and if some seniors want the pitch they get it.

My nephew can't get in the school team. The school team is the one watched by scouts. Our kid could do with some grooming, because he is pretty good but raw.He won't get it and if he goes on to the school his mum wants, he won't play footie again for fun.

School and County FAs are the death of development.As has been said.

On Hackney Marshes you can see a multitude of teams, organised from youth clubs, councils, churches,social groups,ethnic groups even schools. All playing proper matches, side by side, in various and different leagues. And you'd get scouts trawling.
And the players all came from across London.

In the West Midlands we have a desert. Hardly any non-schools organised leagues and even less community organised leagues - they have the teams across Brum, from Chinatown to Solihull.But they play for fun and only now and again.

Organised they could be serious.

Community organised teams with facilities ( pitches changing rooms, leagues, officials etc). Scouts are not going to scout in a desert.And they won't bother with non-developed pub teams - I'm, talking about kids. U15s say.


We don't have the throughput here in the West Midlands - NOT because of ability, but because of facilities, investment, organisation and opportunity.

These are Political decisions and choices.Scouts are not going to scout in a desert.

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Thank you so much for this insight into the structure of west midlands football at youth level. Your analysis of the football in london was spot on and therefore I am very much inclined to accept everything you have said about west mids youth football.

I rang thr west mids fa and left a message with the youth development officer but to date no one has rang me back!

My research so far has shown me that the east mids are doing something better than us in the west mids. Gary Lineker and Andy Cole both came from this region. Both are legends.

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Poor pitches everywhere you turn, muddy and slow paced football.
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