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    Millenium was massive to be the underdogs and unfancied, then take the lead. All do go down on Pens.

    In recent times - Away at Huddersfield, our following was amazing, went 1 down and played them off the park. I love watching the videos of that game on Youtube. Still makes the hairs on the back of my arms stand up. Was the day we started believing we would win the League.

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    Some real stong rumours going around about the extra circicular activies of Charlie Austin. And that his injury is not a real injury and he has already caused a big unrest in the dressing room.

    An article published by a local Swindon news paper (The day after he joined Burnley) would also back this up.

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    RE - Wes, I think he as been so good this year. His fight for the ball, workrate and engery as been nothing short of outstanding. I think he is a better player in this division than he was last year in League one, even though he doesnt have as many goals or assists.

    There was never any doubt that some of the talent in his locker is sublime, but he still frustrates me. I still wish he would play the ball abit quicker at times, I still think he is slightly lightweight and still wish he''d have a go with his right foot.

    Surman - I agree with you 100%, the thing with this City team is there is now room for passengers. He obviously has talent and ability, I think maybe at the moment he is lacking abit of confidence. I cant recall him taling the full back on once or getting one ball into the box. Your right he''d look one hell of a indoor 5-a-side player, real neat and tidy, but get him onto a full size pitch and he isnt contributing enough for me.

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    [quote user="Canarino"]CDMullins, just out of interest, after your experience and training did you end up working in a football-related or sport-related job?[/quote]

    No I didnt, College pushed me to apply for the services. By the time my Police application form came, I was working for group4 as a prisoner custody officer. I joined the Police and quit around 3 months into my training.The job wasnt for me.

    I started work in a betting shop and an old coaches brother came in one day and asked me if I wanted to start playing semi- Professional. By this time I had moved to William Hill Head Office where I am a Security Manager and I just couldnt commit to training 3 times a week. Also the matches were midweek and in the Manchester area which was a fair old trek to a set off at 5pm and then back home after.

    I feel like I was slightly let down by football. But I think I did my very best and was turned away for my size, something out of my control. My dad took me everywhere and gave me every chance, Leeds Utd, Coventry City, Halifax Town, York City, training courses where ever they were, I had every chance to make it but didnt. I became a referee but it just wasnt the same as playing so gave up on that.

    I went on trial to Coventry with a lad called Martyn Woolford. When we were at Coventry I was asked to stay on and he was released without a second call back. Some time later I played against him in a 5-a-side league on a Monday night. He played for York City at the time. I didnt say anything to our players at the time but afterwards I told them about Coventry and that he played for York City and they couldnt believe he was getting paid to play football and I wasnt. He now plays for Bristol City and played against City last Monday live on Sky, he as also scored a goal at Wembley, crushes me every time I see his name pop-up on Soccer Saturday when he scores.

    Every now and again I fall out of love with Football, usually when Norwich arnt performing and when my 5-a-side team are getting stuffed. But it doesnt take long to find my love for the game again.

    I have the intentions of getting into coaching but not until im 30. I took my UEFA B coaching licence when I was 17 and only failed on the practical assessment. Id love to make money of coaching, but will do it for the loce of the sport rather than personal gain.

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    [quote user="Lincoln Yellow"][quote user="Unhinged Canary"][quote user="CDMullins"]Not sure it really deserves its own thread, but I did say it was very well wrote and exactly as i saw it![/quote]Are you the self-appointed ''Thread-Police'' today? [^o)][/quote]No, he''s just always an arrogant cock that thinks he''s above everyone else on here. He doesn''t go to games so spends hours on here being a general cock.[/quote]

    Brilliant

  20. Posted

    Im sorry but this is a complete joke.

    Yes I want a new striker and would be half happy at either Delfounseo or Borini but.........

    How can you possibly judge them been ''a good shout'' by what you saw on the FL show??

    Delfouseo''s first AND ONLY goal for Burnley was literally tapped in from 2 yards out!

    And Borini - No one as mentioned that he blasted the ball at a defender just before he scored the first. the 2 goals he scored I would have expected Wilbram, Martin and Jackson to score.

    If were playing by these rules, Cureton scored 2 goals yesterday, would you have him back?

  21. Posted

    I agree on many of your points raised.

    The problem with the English game is once a child finishes school there is nowhere else for them to play and everyone presumes if they are not signed with a professional side at 16, then they will never be good enough.

    All way through school I genuinely believed I was going to be a footballer. I’d played at Leeds United''s development scheme until I was 14, had a couple of successful trials at Coventry

    City, which in the end nothing came of, had a 6 month stint at York and the same at Halifax Town. My trouble was I was too small, both in height and strength. Now I’m not using that as the sole reason I didn’t become a footballer, but if you are small and weak you have to be exceptionally talented to make it. Youth team coaches need to get results on a Saturday morning, same as any First team manger does and using big, strong players that can kick the ball further was more effective than playing small technically gifted players.

    Now when I left school 8 years ago, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was sporty but not really the academic type, although I am quite bright, I just don’t enjoy classroom stuff. I came across a leaflet for Wakefield College and for only the second year they had a FDC Football Development Centre, this basically entailed football training on a Tuesday morning, a match on a Wednesday afternoon and football training on a Thursday afternoon. You had at to have a College course set up to do around the FDC programme. I chose the BTEC National Diploma In Sport and Exercise Science, and had trials for the FDC in the Summer before college began, I passed the trials and was selected in the squad. Had I not have been I really do not know if I would have gone to college.

    At the time (I have no idea how many there is now) there were only 20 FDC’s in the country of which only 10 were Northern and accessible. Our squad consisted of 20 kids that had all had spells at various professional clubs and were playing against other FDC’s that were exactly the same. The standard very good. Coaches were professional football coaches and matches were played at Semi-Professional Grounds.

    Our goalkeeper was selected to play England Colleges, he went to play in Bulgaria, USA and he now plays in Sweden. A couple of lads went to Ireland for trials and we regularly had scouts from America watching with a view to Scholarships in the US. A recent member of the squad as gone to play in Egypt. But only one player of from Wakefield FDC as gone on to become a professional footballer and he is a certain.......................................Oli Johnson.

    It was through studying that I saw just how good the US and Australia had it, their training methods far surpassed ours, their facilities were second to none. Their fitness and athletic-ness beat ours. The Scholarship programmes lasted longer and matches were played infront of thousands of people. I told people 8 years ago that I believed USA or Australia would win the World Cup in the next 20 years.

    HOWEVER, that was 8 years ago and they have only slightly improved. They matched England in the World Cup with a 1-1 draw but that doesn’t tell half of the story, we were very poor and the Rob Green mistake gifted them the point. Throwing money at old in-their-day world Class Footballers like Thierry Henry and David Beckham is not going to develop the MLS and having watched games the standard is no better than League One in my opinion. Lots of average footballers athe the end of their career have gone to play in America which says to me that the crop of players coming through just isn’t good enough. As for the Australian League well that is just terrible.

  22. Posted

    so far he has brought in Wilbraham, Elliott, Jackson, Johnson.... none of them have been anything special

    Deary me, where do I start.

    Wilbramham - Was brought in to cover for Holt, but because Jackson cant buy a goal and Martin as been kidknapped by aliens, he as played more football than expected and done OK to be fair.

    Elliott - Signed on a short loan deal to see us through the League One campaign, what did he do...... see us through, 2 very important goals against Huddersfield.

    Johnson - Picked up for next to nothing, again whilst we were in League One. Scored some VITAL goals in our League One winning season. Is young in terms of professional football experience and if he doesnt make it with us he will probably make us a few quid.

    Jackson - Everyone was happy and excited when we signed him. In small patches he has looked good, not had a run of games and could still be a good player. Short on confidence at the moment. Still not a lost cause and could still get all of/most of our money back.
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