JimEFC
Player Valuation: £10m
Just wrote this to the FA - I know it's stupid but like I said, fuming and they annoy me a lot...
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General Question: Your system seems very keen to avoid people being able to ask questions of the FA itself - just a point of observation.
In this case, you leave me no choice but to go through your email system.
Please refer these questions to someone who may be able to answer them, i.e. somebody who acts as a spokesperson for the FA.
Why is there no league football over Easter? As a fan of a Premier League club, I like Easter. You have robbed me of this chance. If you care about me, then you would be happy to know that I don't have to work due to the bank holiday weekend... Please rethink this in future, because I am not the only angry person with regard to the lack of league football over Easter. If your answer will be that it gives me a chance to watch England...No, it doesn't. For several reasons:
I do not live in Wembley; to travel from Wembley after a match is impossible, as you well know, and as you well knew when building the national stadium in the wrong place.
England are a joke. I would rather support Harrogate Town. When Harrogate Town play a match, all 11 of their players put in the effort required to win the game. They do not always win the game, but at least they will have tried. The players who are in the England team are a shambles and they make me ashamed to be English. My feeling ashamed of them is a fact you cannot dispute.
Just an idea but stop listening to the newspapers, picking a team with players in it who have had the most headlines that month. It’s a joke and it makes the FA look stupid. It makes the incumbent manager (Roy Hodgson for now) look even more stupid, but I blame the FA more.
Pick a team that might win the odd match, stick with that team and, oh yes, stop listening the newspapers...I’ve seen many people have 3 good games and end up in the England squad. It devalues the entire thing, it makes their selection irrelevant, undermines your manager’s judgement and also makes me not want to watch England, since the team is just a cobbled-together embarrassing bunch who got 8/10 in the Daily Mirror 3 times out of 4 in the last month. It is not professional at all and it makes me ashamed. If you are going to hire a manager on a grossly inflated salary then at least make him earn it. The Daily Mirror are not on your payroll as far as I know. Again, very embarrassing.
Germany have a great team. Germany picked a team, they got hammered in South Africa, but they won the tournament 4 years later... I do believe it is not rocket science.
Stop having international breaks just when the league is getting exciting. Nobody wants a two-week gap right now, especially if it’s just to watch England and/or whoever. Nobody cares. I appreciate that FIFA set these dates, but please at least try to argue against them and, if all else fails, ignore the corrupt group that they are.
Why can't we have league mid-week fixtures before Christmas (especially since Uefa has strung out their boring competitions over 4 weeks for the Round of 16...). It would save us having to cram top-flight league fixtures around your stubbornly immovable and illogical international matches that nobody cares about.
I would say cancel international football altogether, but I know you need it to pay for Wembley (which is terrible for anyone who lives outside of London just FYI). My constructive advice would be to have midweek league fixtures before Christmas, rather than cramming 10 games into 6 weeks between March and May. But then I don't work for you, and therefore I am not a genius.
Everyone I know is furious that we have no league football this weekend, on a bank holiday no less, and I think it is a gross miscalculation. I have 2 days off, but (lucky me) I can spend them watching Gary Cahill behaving like he is special. Or maybe I can go in the shed and pray to the voodoo gods that Wayne Rooney might be fit.
I don't care about Cahill or Rooney, and I don't care about England. That's about 400,000 Premier League ticket sales – off the top of my head – perhaps double if you had any foresight and scheduled a Friday/Monday fixture calendar with the Premier League. I appreciate that the Premier League makes you uncomfortable, but you could at least try.
I am dangerously close to calling the FA on Tradition because this is what you have just cost the clubs, and the fans, and now we all have to watch an awful array of overpaid idiots who spend 90 minutes trying not to get injured, because they have MORE IMPORTANT things to do when they get back to their clubs. Whoever decided that a pair of England friendlies over Easter weekend was a good idea clearly has never worked for, been to watch, or heard of a football club in his or her life.
I hope you are happy. Wembley, yay, isn't it pretty. So worth all that money you wasted on it…But…
Nobody can go because you have already sold the tickets, Club Wembley are happy, and you are happy because you have a pre-paid sum of money you can borrow against. Well done you.
You might as well rub the football fan's face in the dirt because this is how we feel when we think about what your opinion of us might be. Wembley is roughly as easy to get to as the moon. If you have a 5:15 kick off for a semi-final, it’s actually harder to get home from than the moon. I could list the amount of clubs who’s fans have been forced to stay the night in London due to lack of public transport, but I think you are well aware. It is a ridiculous arrangement and I hope it will not be forever. Although you give me no hope that it won’t be forever, so I guess we just say “to hell with them”?
Since one of the FA Cup semi-finals is potentially between two clubs from the north-west, I see the allowance of the moving of the kick-off time as just one further fact that confirms your lackadaisical, TV-centric attitude to football. You are paid (as members of the FA) to represent the sport of football, and you make me feel no faith in you, not one iota of faith, and the public impression you give as an organisation is that you have no belief whatsoever in your own success, nor the success of the game as a whole. Fulfilling a role quietly is one thing; leading an organisation is quite another.
Based on what I have observed, every decision the FA makes causes the FA to drop a notch in the estimation of those who actually support football.
If you are football fans, I stand mistaken. I do, however, highly doubt that you are – staging England games over Easter is a prime example – unless you have never left London and think that a trip to Wembley is the same as a trip to Brentford, giving no thought to those who might actually have to give up their day and travel from other areas of England.
In short, I would be amazed if you support football because every decision you make gives the impression that you do not. Most of your decisions have the consequence of making football fans' lives more difficult. Please at least make your intentions clear when you do make these barmy decisions, so that the people who have helped the game grow up for over the last 100 years still feel valued and might even decide to come back after the Easter dearth. Sorry, international break.
I hope you will answer but I doubt you will. I also hope that what I have written be read by somebody. I know my complaints are not original, but they are still valid and worthy of reply, in my opinion at least.
No hard feelings.
"""
General Question: Your system seems very keen to avoid people being able to ask questions of the FA itself - just a point of observation.
In this case, you leave me no choice but to go through your email system.
Please refer these questions to someone who may be able to answer them, i.e. somebody who acts as a spokesperson for the FA.
Why is there no league football over Easter? As a fan of a Premier League club, I like Easter. You have robbed me of this chance. If you care about me, then you would be happy to know that I don't have to work due to the bank holiday weekend... Please rethink this in future, because I am not the only angry person with regard to the lack of league football over Easter. If your answer will be that it gives me a chance to watch England...No, it doesn't. For several reasons:
I do not live in Wembley; to travel from Wembley after a match is impossible, as you well know, and as you well knew when building the national stadium in the wrong place.
England are a joke. I would rather support Harrogate Town. When Harrogate Town play a match, all 11 of their players put in the effort required to win the game. They do not always win the game, but at least they will have tried. The players who are in the England team are a shambles and they make me ashamed to be English. My feeling ashamed of them is a fact you cannot dispute.
Just an idea but stop listening to the newspapers, picking a team with players in it who have had the most headlines that month. It’s a joke and it makes the FA look stupid. It makes the incumbent manager (Roy Hodgson for now) look even more stupid, but I blame the FA more.
Pick a team that might win the odd match, stick with that team and, oh yes, stop listening the newspapers...I’ve seen many people have 3 good games and end up in the England squad. It devalues the entire thing, it makes their selection irrelevant, undermines your manager’s judgement and also makes me not want to watch England, since the team is just a cobbled-together embarrassing bunch who got 8/10 in the Daily Mirror 3 times out of 4 in the last month. It is not professional at all and it makes me ashamed. If you are going to hire a manager on a grossly inflated salary then at least make him earn it. The Daily Mirror are not on your payroll as far as I know. Again, very embarrassing.
Germany have a great team. Germany picked a team, they got hammered in South Africa, but they won the tournament 4 years later... I do believe it is not rocket science.
Stop having international breaks just when the league is getting exciting. Nobody wants a two-week gap right now, especially if it’s just to watch England and/or whoever. Nobody cares. I appreciate that FIFA set these dates, but please at least try to argue against them and, if all else fails, ignore the corrupt group that they are.
Why can't we have league mid-week fixtures before Christmas (especially since Uefa has strung out their boring competitions over 4 weeks for the Round of 16...). It would save us having to cram top-flight league fixtures around your stubbornly immovable and illogical international matches that nobody cares about.
I would say cancel international football altogether, but I know you need it to pay for Wembley (which is terrible for anyone who lives outside of London just FYI). My constructive advice would be to have midweek league fixtures before Christmas, rather than cramming 10 games into 6 weeks between March and May. But then I don't work for you, and therefore I am not a genius.
Everyone I know is furious that we have no league football this weekend, on a bank holiday no less, and I think it is a gross miscalculation. I have 2 days off, but (lucky me) I can spend them watching Gary Cahill behaving like he is special. Or maybe I can go in the shed and pray to the voodoo gods that Wayne Rooney might be fit.
I don't care about Cahill or Rooney, and I don't care about England. That's about 400,000 Premier League ticket sales – off the top of my head – perhaps double if you had any foresight and scheduled a Friday/Monday fixture calendar with the Premier League. I appreciate that the Premier League makes you uncomfortable, but you could at least try.
I am dangerously close to calling the FA on Tradition because this is what you have just cost the clubs, and the fans, and now we all have to watch an awful array of overpaid idiots who spend 90 minutes trying not to get injured, because they have MORE IMPORTANT things to do when they get back to their clubs. Whoever decided that a pair of England friendlies over Easter weekend was a good idea clearly has never worked for, been to watch, or heard of a football club in his or her life.
I hope you are happy. Wembley, yay, isn't it pretty. So worth all that money you wasted on it…But…
Nobody can go because you have already sold the tickets, Club Wembley are happy, and you are happy because you have a pre-paid sum of money you can borrow against. Well done you.
You might as well rub the football fan's face in the dirt because this is how we feel when we think about what your opinion of us might be. Wembley is roughly as easy to get to as the moon. If you have a 5:15 kick off for a semi-final, it’s actually harder to get home from than the moon. I could list the amount of clubs who’s fans have been forced to stay the night in London due to lack of public transport, but I think you are well aware. It is a ridiculous arrangement and I hope it will not be forever. Although you give me no hope that it won’t be forever, so I guess we just say “to hell with them”?
Since one of the FA Cup semi-finals is potentially between two clubs from the north-west, I see the allowance of the moving of the kick-off time as just one further fact that confirms your lackadaisical, TV-centric attitude to football. You are paid (as members of the FA) to represent the sport of football, and you make me feel no faith in you, not one iota of faith, and the public impression you give as an organisation is that you have no belief whatsoever in your own success, nor the success of the game as a whole. Fulfilling a role quietly is one thing; leading an organisation is quite another.
Based on what I have observed, every decision the FA makes causes the FA to drop a notch in the estimation of those who actually support football.
If you are football fans, I stand mistaken. I do, however, highly doubt that you are – staging England games over Easter is a prime example – unless you have never left London and think that a trip to Wembley is the same as a trip to Brentford, giving no thought to those who might actually have to give up their day and travel from other areas of England.
In short, I would be amazed if you support football because every decision you make gives the impression that you do not. Most of your decisions have the consequence of making football fans' lives more difficult. Please at least make your intentions clear when you do make these barmy decisions, so that the people who have helped the game grow up for over the last 100 years still feel valued and might even decide to come back after the Easter dearth. Sorry, international break.
I hope you will answer but I doubt you will. I also hope that what I have written be read by somebody. I know my complaints are not original, but they are still valid and worthy of reply, in my opinion at least.
No hard feelings.
So I sent it to them, and it still didn't help, so I posted it on here too. Regretting it already but there it is. Mods delete thread pls? lol
