davieG Posted 8 February 2010 Posted 8 February 2010 What are your views on training, facilities and the organisation of grassroots football in Leicestershire and Rutland? Is there a burning issue regarding local football that you need to get of your chest? Is The FA's Respect campaign working? The county FA wants to hear your answers to these questions and other issues, through their online Stakeholder Survey. Players, coaches, fans, parents and grassroots football workers across the county are being encouraged to have their say on the future of the game by taking part in the new survey, taking place for the third consecutive year. If you believe that certain areas of the grassroots game need more attention, have ideas of how local football can be improved or would like to praise the good work that's already being done, go online and have your say. County FA Chief Executive Laurence Jones believes the survey is crucial to shaping the future of the local game and is keen to hear people's views. "Our football workforce has already helped shape The FA's National Game Strategy, which resulted in a four year investment worth £220m across the country from The FA. "Once again, we're listening to the voice of local football people to tell us how we're doing and what still needs to be done to keep the grassroots game heading in a positive direction." To have your say and take the survey online go to http://thefa.com/surveys/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=7lLM3pm. Hard copies are also available by contacting the Leicestershire & Rutland County FA on 0116 2867828. The survey closes on February 14. NOTE - This is a survey on the FA not the FL or the PL!
Ashley Posted 8 February 2010 Posted 8 February 2010 The FA - Destroying English Football Since 1992.
Fosse Boy Posted 8 February 2010 Posted 8 February 2010 The FA - Destroying English Football Since 1992.
Matt Posted 8 February 2010 Posted 8 February 2010 Is The FA's Respect campaign working? **Rubbing hands with Glee letting them know about the pathetic respect campaign** Oh, doesn't exactly let you 'have your say', just gives you some option to best describe your feelings over things, and they aren't the most in depth questions either. I suppose if anyone said anything bad against the FA or the majority of jumped up little referee's it would be dis-respecting them so they'll limit your answers and have more chance of getting answers and feedback that looks better on them.
davieG Posted 8 February 2010 Author Posted 8 February 2010 The FA - Destroying English Football Since 1992. If that's because of the creation of the Premier league then you've got the wrong target. You need to blame the top professional football clubs who 'forced it's creation under threat of legal action. The FA had no say in whether it came about or not. From Wiki, not the most reliable but pretty much as I remember it but without the threats and arguments. Television money had also become much more important; the Football League received £6.3 million for a two-year agreement in 1986, but when that deal was renewed in 1988, the price rose to £44m over four years. [7] The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and form a "super league", but were eventually persuaded to stay. [8] As stadia improved and match attendance and revenues rose, the country's top teams again considered leaving the Football League in order to capitalise on the growing influx of money being pumped into the sport. At the close of the 1991 season, a proposal for the establishment of a new league was tabled that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League. [9] The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from the Football Association and the Football League, giving the FA Premier League license to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The argument given at the time was that the extra income would allow English clubs to compete with teams across Europe. [10] In 1992 the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse and on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the Football Association's then headquarters in Lancaster Gate. [5] This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated until then with four divisions; the Premier League would operate with a single division and the Football League with three. There was no change in competition format; the same number of teams competed in the top flight, and promotion and relegation between the Premier League and the new First Division remained on the same terms as between the old First and Second Divisions. The 22 inaugural members of the new Premier League were Arsenal., Aston Villa., Blackburn Rovers., Chelsea., Coventry City., Crystal Palace., Everton., Ipswich Town., Leeds United., Liverpool., Manchester City., Manchester United., Middlesbrough., Norwich City., Nottingham Forest., Oldham Athletic., Queens Park Rangers., Sheffield United., Sheffield Wednesday., Southampton., Tottenham Hotspur., and Wimbledon..
hairy Posted 8 February 2010 Posted 8 February 2010 Being chair of a local youth football team I find them obstructive to say the least. They offer little or no support in trying to run a club and have often been devisive. They will go out of their way to try to eject teams from their leagues for no good reason
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.