FA eyes a golden age for the English game
They hired an Italian manager to run the national team and now the FA wants to scour the world for ideas to revive the English game. The FA revealed yesterday what it called its Vision for the next four years, a wish list of objectives designed to put an England team into a World Cup final and reverse the flood of foreign players swamping the national game.
Who will fulfil the role is a mystery, though, possibly even to Lord Triesman, the FA chairman, and Brian Barwick, the chief executive. Triesman wants an Englishman, but even he must be daunted by the prospect of a trawl through English football’s bare crop of talent when there are so few with the authority and credentials the job would appear to demand.