If you can't walk away from school nowadays with at least 5 GCSEs you're either a footballer or a complete fookin' muppet who can't work out negative numbers.
Hmm seem to have said this already today
The British kids today are just wank on the whole, if they were good enough to get into a Prem first team they would do. The fact that Wenger has to go abroad isn't indicative of a poor FA youth system just that they are all talentless coonts.
It's not as though there isn't a huge carrot at the end for them either as getting up to �150k a week at the top level is as big a carrot as there can be.
I think we need to follow the example of Brazil and Argentina.
If we kept large sections of the population in poverty, removed all luxuries and state benefits and made succeeding in sport the only realistic chance at escaping such a life, we'd be world beaters in no time.