Former England manager Glenn Hoddle wants Premier League to introduce on …

“Maybe the government could be helping that, but it is a bigger, deeper

issue for politicians and the FA to get together, because this 32 per cent

is going to get less and less each year.”

Hoddle, who guided England

through to the knockout stages of World

Cup 1998, believes quality coaching from a young age remains the

answer.

He said: “We have to focus in on English talent and be bold enough to say

if foreign players are coming in to fill our clubs aged 17, 18 or 20, then

we have to build a 10-year plan which allows these lads being taught by the

best coaches – being paid good money, which is what the Dutch did – and

bring them through where they master the ball first.

“There is definite talent out there, we just need to source it.”

The FA’s head of elite development Dan Ashworth, meanwhile, remains confident

in the coaching processes in place, which centre on the new facility at St

George’s Park.

“We are as good as anybody for consistently qualifying for tournaments

across the age groups, from seniors down to under 17s – what we are not very

good at is getting out of the groups or through the knockout stages,”

he told Sportsweek.

“That could be down to a number of factors – through our game style, with

a high-pressing game then by the latter stages our players are not perhaps

physically as right as other countries. It could also be psychological

factors, and that is something we will be looking at.

“I would be disappointed if we did not start seeing a real ingrained

game-style philosophy approach to talent identification, psychology and all

the other things, and a real alignment of all our disciplines across all the

ages in 18 months’ time.”

Former Premier League chief executive Rick Parry is in no doubt where the

blame lies over most of the games’ ills.

He told the BBC’s radio show: “The FA need to be bolder, they are the

governing body – do they really want to govern?

“You look at the big issues in recent years, where you would expect the

FA to be taking a position where the FAs across Europe do, and I think ours

has tended to be a little bit on the back foot and silent.”

Parry added: “We should not be trying to dumb down the Premier League, it

is not about trying to reign that in, it is more a case of can the FA now

pull itself up by its boot straps and catch up?”

(Edited by Kristian Walsh)

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