Grassroots football in Merseyside and England dying out

[Pabbers]

Was involved with my lads team for a while, very hard work.

 

[Garrick]

Nuts. My home town of 60,000 runs a sports complex that has 10 soccer fields, and a bunch more American football fields and baseball/softball diamonds as well. Couple of them have floodlights even.

It costs a small amount of money to reserve a field, but if there's nobody around you're free to walk on, just need to bring your own goal nets.

Can join a U10 league and under for under $100. Older than that and its mostly travel leagues unfortunately, but if you join the middle school or high school teams when you get to that age they subsidize most of it for you.

 

[Fuleco]

http://www.theguardian.com/football...warning-grassroots-golf-netball-hockey-rowing

 

[Toffeelover]

The FA gets millions, spend some of it and stop relying on the T/P.

Another way of looking at it is for each PL club to give 1 Mill from it's TV jackpot to this cause now that would do the trick.

 

[dholliday]

good post, reidy.

this is a huge problem, and is only getting worse. the cash cow of modern football is the issue here, and wider capitalism in western society as a whole. it's eating itself.

 

[thirdmantackle]

Look to example in Australian towns. Most have municipal facilities for all sports clubs. Brings the cost down hugely.

 

[toffeejack]

when you see players like tony hibbert getting a big wedge, setting them up for life, you would wonder how it's not an attraction