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Because coaches egos want wins and it means rather than developing players they’ll pick the ones that get them that. Also parents don’t have a clue. We have three players in our U13 team who are big and strong, hit puberty early so physically miles ahead of some. One of them is a terrible player, completely clueless but I’ve heard parents describe him as “electric” and “unstoppable” he gets the ball and runs in a straight line to the corner flag, so yes he is unstoppable at that but when he has to do anything else he has no idea what to do, despite years of us trying to help him. Another other one is a better player but he’s the superstar at the moment in the parents eyes because he is bigger and stronger than everyone else and has parents ask why he’s not in an academy. It’s because he isn’t a good footballer, he is at best average technically but gets away with it because he’s faster and stronger then everyone else right now but in two years time he won’t be. Meanwhile we have 2 much better kids technically who get written off by some parents and even one other coach as too weak and slow because they’re playing u13s the size of 11 year olds so often against kids who are biologically 3-4 years older but are miles ahead of them in football ability. With the ego of some parents wanting their kids to play in teams that win every week and will switch clubs on a whim if they get what they think is a better offer plus coaches egos you often see smaller kids get written off and it drives me crazy.

A few of my friends went pro and they were just in a completely different league to us, control, fitness, positioning, reading of the game, if they wanted they could literally just keep the ball away from you as long as they wanted and make it look easy. I even played against bartosz bialkowski with him playing on pitch, and even him as a keeper playing on pitch was the best player there by some distance, and he wasn't really trying too. I’ve played with and against some very good players, played with some pros and one actually made an appearance for England and now see an few high level non league players every week. what always amazed me was the speed they did things at. I’ve seen players with great skill but the difference is the pros can do what they can at incredible speed. Also the strength and power, even the ones who might look weak on the pitch at premier league level the average non league player wouldn’t knock off the ball and the power they strike the ball with is also levels above which only comes from having elite level technique and strength. developing that is a long game though, you see some many kids now who get written off at 12 or 13 because they’re small and weaker because they’re late developers, others who are the superstars at 12 because they’ve developed earlier are stronger and quicker than everyone else but when you get to 15 it’s all they’ve got when everyone else catches up. Then there’s the junior star who is brilliant at 9 but thinks they’re the dogs bollocks and gets caught up, all being clapped along by deluded parents who think their kid is a future star

Surely the left will be protesting against the targeting of Turkish barbers to present digital IDs claiming it’s racist

This perhaps shows how good you have to be to be a professional player. A top player as a kid, no doubt probably one of the best in the area but was one of the worst in the old first division at a time when the league was made up of mainly British players with foreigners being rare. Deluded parents thinking their kid is the new Ronaldo when they’re not even the best player in their own team. So when we’re doing these lists it’s also worth remembering all of them would run rings round all of us. Apart from Lee Todd

He’s made my team for his famous appearance as a half time sub. He came on with us 3-0 up away at Tranmere in the fa cup. He didn’t touch the ball, we lost 4-3. Very saintsy

Baz lee Todd. Scott Marshall calum Davenport Jelle Van Damme Ryan Smith Jason Euell immats Bledilis David Speedie Carrillo. Delgado

Not when they can tax it

Who knows mate, you’d think so wouldn’t you but I guess the objective is to stay in the premier league or yoyo (maybe Glasgow finally has his yoyo strategy 😂) spending as little as possible whilst making as much as we can. Last summer signings didn’t exactly scream we were making a good fist at staying up

He’s been playing in some weird hybrid wing back role, it’s hardly surprising he was great at Sheffield united then subbed at half time

If we can sell Scienza, Jander and anyone else for more than double what we paid for them it's another tick in the box for the player trading. League position is irrelevant to that

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Childish response. My child said things like that when they were 10!

Another hater for the CoT, what a surprise when we called Romeu. Another jealous hater 🙄🙄🙄

What calling Brendan Rodgers, Brenda Togers, yeah that’s so mature and you’re having a go at me for pointing it out. Another case of you totally missing the point in your desperation to have a pop at me 🤦