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West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has accused former Conservative Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher of destroying homegrown football talent.The
Hammers manager says Thatcher's Tories "undermined the game" by
stopping teachers' overtime for taking extra sports lessons after
school.He said: "Thatcher killed football, no doubt about it."Since
Margaret Thatcher stopped teachers being paid extra money for coaching
sports after school, all sporting activities have diminished on a
competitive basis."
Allardyce said the Tories' policy has produced "a lesser quality of players" and "unhealthy" kids.He
said: "This was a working class game but it's only at private schools
where the children get the sports opportunities I had - and even then a
lot of them don't play football, it's mainly rugby."Despite
putting in place all sorts of advanced academy systems at clubs we are
only producing half the players the school system used to."Our
[West Ham] youth trainer, Tony Carr, is fighting to find the next
Ferdinands and Lampards with one hand tied behind his back."
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Minister Margaret Thatcher of destroying homegrown football talent.The
Hammers manager says Thatcher's Tories "undermined the game" by
stopping teachers' overtime for taking extra sports lessons after
school.He said: "Thatcher killed football, no doubt about it."Since
Margaret Thatcher stopped teachers being paid extra money for coaching
sports after school, all sporting activities have diminished on a
competitive basis."
Allardyce said the Tories' policy has produced "a lesser quality of players" and "unhealthy" kids.He
said: "This was a working class game but it's only at private schools
where the children get the sports opportunities I had - and even then a
lot of them don't play football, it's mainly rugby."Despite
putting in place all sorts of advanced academy systems at clubs we are
only producing half the players the school system used to."Our
[West Ham] youth trainer, Tony Carr, is fighting to find the next
Ferdinands and Lampards with one hand tied behind his back."
Read more: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Looks like he has been kissing the cat
. I think the change from competitive sport to 'everybody is equal and there should be no losers' mentality of some teachers in the past has caused more damage. I remember having massive rows with the head of the school I was a governor of about competitive sports days. She was a an advocate of running a race and giving every kid in it a prize, could not see that all the kids knew who had won and that their 'prize' for coming last was a nonsense even at 5 years of age. Don't think the lack of talent in English football should be laid at her door, whatever else you may think she has done wrong.
