Stuart Lustigman Column
Barnet FC might currently be bottom of the Football League but their Director of Football, Paul Fairclough (a very nice man), writing in last week’s Evening Standard, certainly talks a lot of sense. He referred to the lost generations of kids who were brought up learning their "technical and problem solving skills" on a diet of 'street football' playing from “kerb to kerb", instead of being "contaminated by the coaching system that sucks the brains out of players”. That's how the likes of Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, George Best, Dennis Law and others developed their skills in their formative years. Watch out for more pearls of wisdom from Paul every third Thursday in the Evening Standard.
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So the FIFA hierarchy have been wined and dined whilst visiting England to assess the chances of us hosting the 2018 World Cup. I have no doubt that our existing infrastructure and stadia would have impressed the inspection committee but FIFA has received 11 formal expressions of interest for the 2018/2022 tournaments and with Russia’s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, confirming that there is “No situation to prevent Russia from financing the budget needed to host the event”, I would not be surprised if the land of oligarchs gets the nod come 2 December next.
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