Post by waggoner on May 22, 2020 8:45:09 GMT
I was looking at some articles regarding the struggles that clubs are going to face to cut costs going forward. There seems to be quite a few clubs who are getting rid of their U9, U10 and even the 14s and youth teams. I suppose that it would be inevitable that clubs would need to tighten their belts and aim their finance towards the first team.
But where will it leave football in general when many thousands of kids drift out of football completely?. Grassroots football is in real danger too. It cost a hell of a lot of money to run a Saturday/Sunday league club. Running costs; Pitches, Referees, kit plus insurance for players against injury on the pitch and travel to the game. It may be the case that when football resumes there may not be too many grassroots clubs left to form the leagues.
We are all worried about our clubs Premier League, EFL and non League due to how things are, but what about the actual game of football? The FA need to have a more 'bottom up' approach to football instead of a 'top down' approach. Participation in football also creates the fans of the future. This is why the whole football 'have and have not' culture stinks. Too much money at the top and the bread getting buttered a lot thinner as you roll down the leagues.
The FA are the guardians of FOOTBALL from the top to the bottom and it's about time that they realised this and shared better than they do now.
But where will it leave football in general when many thousands of kids drift out of football completely?. Grassroots football is in real danger too. It cost a hell of a lot of money to run a Saturday/Sunday league club. Running costs; Pitches, Referees, kit plus insurance for players against injury on the pitch and travel to the game. It may be the case that when football resumes there may not be too many grassroots clubs left to form the leagues.
We are all worried about our clubs Premier League, EFL and non League due to how things are, but what about the actual game of football? The FA need to have a more 'bottom up' approach to football instead of a 'top down' approach. Participation in football also creates the fans of the future. This is why the whole football 'have and have not' culture stinks. Too much money at the top and the bread getting buttered a lot thinner as you roll down the leagues.
The FA are the guardians of FOOTBALL from the top to the bottom and it's about time that they realised this and shared better than they do now.
