The FA - as we all know are an incompetent organisation with some evidence to suggest they may even be corrupt. The senior leadership team are a shambles. Tasked with renewing a tired and archaic organisation they seem to go from one one PR gaff to another. The men’s game has it bad and is badly served by an organisation which for example has systematically undermined the national team with a string of ludicrous decisions : Charles Hughes, Graeme Taylor, Steve McLaren and Gareth Southgate to name a few. However, in respect of the women’s game they are worse. They are an utter disaster. A salary cap to destroy competitiveness, propping up an England Manager against serious allegations without conducting a proper investigation - and having hired him without conducting any due diligence - and only later finding evidence of gross misconduct at his previous employer - did they not even write for a reference? One assumes not !, playing an FA cup Final with Man City as one of the teams on an afternoon when City were playing (this had to take thousands off the gate of a showpiece event), moving last nights Continental Cup Final to a weeknight - the majority of attendees would have been females under 16 with their parents for that game - how many of them will have trekked to Wycombe on a school night? To cap it all the FA couldn’t even secure any TV coverage. Finally, you have the appointment of an England Manager who did not tick a single one of the criteria set out by the FA for recruitment into the post! How can anyone take them seriously. Clarke and Glenn are cut from the same cloth, old school, chauvinist bullies. The women’s game innEngland is just a token and it’ll be nothing more with these clowns at the helm. City’s approach should be encouraged but instead it’s punished by those who have no appreciation of ambition or understanding of the need to progress.
