MUCH praise has been showered on the FA after the success of England’s under age teams this summer. Rightly so. But you’ve also got to remember that international coaches only see those players for two weeks at a time. So let’s hear it for the age group coaches up and down the country who’ve nurtured those lads for years. They deserve the bulk of the credit.
What England’s success shows is that coaching reforms have worked. The Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) has both positives and negatives, but one thing it did – certainly when I was running the ac...