It's staggering how many people can't recognise this and are happy for the top clubs to **** it all up, just so that their team can get slightly better youth development. They don't seem to realise that this is a change that will have serious ramifications for every level of the game.
The heart and soul of English football is that I can go to watch my local club in the ****** Ryman South league and there will be 200 odd people there week in, week out. It's in the little clubs and in the dreamers that climb the divisions, the old names looking to make a resurgence and the young guns who will do as much as possible before they start to fade. English football is a rich myriad of stories and individuals, that's what makes it so special. These changes are more than happy to wipe it all away in a vain effort to turn our setup into little more than a production line for top class players. I don't know about you, but if it's a choice between watching England be a bit less **** once every 2 years (even then, this isn't going to address our actual problems) or keeping the joy and the tears that so many non league fans get week in, week out, then it's an obvious one.
