As Rita has mentioned above, selling off parks and green spaces for housing has had a massive impact too, as there`s a lot fewer places for young people to play any form of sport at all now.
The Tories let them shut down my yoyh club had a snooker table - dart board & 2 tennis tables plus a football team ...
The poor youth generation of today have nothing in most cases & the government's penny wise pound foolish wonder why we have...
Past Government's mainly over the last 20 years have closed the basic youth clubs down in every area - not just deprived areas - I had 3 to choose from in my youth - it's as plain as your nose on your face they need starting up again - Freddie...
Guardian quiz is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/12/sports-quiz-week-football-rugby-boxing-tennis-golf-cycling-athletics
Joe friday quiz is here:
https://www.joe.co.uk/quiz/the-joe-friday-pub-quiz-week-468-505283
Good luck
Baines was kept out of our side as Lescott played left back - DMs choice - at the time Lescott was taller at left back for headers & on top of his best form .... he kept baines out of our team for a while ...
He’s got player of the month , 4 assists and yet we live a world where the ex RS Captain Charisma gets an England call up and Jack doesn’t . I know it’s not a one for one but it’s still mad .
All its missing now is
- we've also built 2 big massive escalators so it doesn't take 3hrs to reach the top. In the event of them not working, we will provide an oxygen cylinder and tent.
International breaks - easy solution is to put all the poor seeded teams = the minnows of the competition into one league & only the top 2 qualify for the Euros or the world cup - the teams England have played just Cannon fodder - the whole...
Just finished Freddie Flintoff's - cricket documentary 4 episodes - Field of Dreams - if anyone needs a knighthood its Freddie showing any governments in the UK how to solve our broken youth society & the way forwards in all the UK - open youth...