Gordon Taylor English Quotations

You can never be certain whether someone can do the job or not until you actually give it to them, but when I look around there are enough good, young English coaches to persuade me at least one should be given the opportunity.

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.

But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?