West Ham United have published a video interview with Vice Chairman Karren Brady, where she goes into more detail regarding the architectural plans for the Olympic Stadium, which West Ham will be moving into for the start of the 2016 season.
Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient and West Ham United were all interested in moving to the 54,000-seat stadium, but West Ham United won in the end despite Leyton Orient's ground just being 750 yards away from the Olympic Park.
As news today is slower than a white man in slippers I thought I would feature a little interview
with Trevor Brooking. I stumbled across it yesterday on Wharf.
Interview: West Ham legend Trevor Brooking
By Simon Hayes
West Ham legend Sir Trevor Brooking is urging the club's new owners to build for the future
following this week's takeover.
The Royal Mail are marking the Football Association's 150th anniversary by issuing a special set ofcommemorativestamps featuring 11 of the British game's most revered players asillustrated by artist Andrew Kinsman.
England are represented by Gordon Banks, Bobby Moore, Bryan Robson, Kevin Keegan, John Barnes, Sir Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Greaves, while Wales' John Charles, Norn Iron's George Best and Scotland pair Dave Mackay and Denis Law make up the rest of the home nations XI all 11 players have been inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame.
Sir Trevor Brooking, The Football Association's Director of Football, has today sympathized with
Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley, who both resigned from their positions as club manager this week
under rather similar conditions. Kevin and Alan - both resigned this week Keegan resigned
dramatically from Newcastle United on Thursday night, complaining about not having the final say [.
Here we are people, a little later than planned but we got here all the same.
Despite the desperate clamour from what appeared to be all quarters for the FA to give their top
job to English football's preeminent trucker tanned chirruping Coken Ey sparrah, it would appear
that Roy Hodgson is their first choice to take the England job so much so, in fact, that they're
interviewing him/have interviewed him at Wembley this very day.
Reminds me of my mate in England around 30 years ago.
Sean Parker . On completing my Business Management degree Sean said, "I was going to go University
and do a degree, but my mate /Steve Atkins, Akkers, didn't pick up the form."
Now the same dynamic attitude could keep English football in the "thump long and get it right up
at" era.
Raise your hand if you knew that an English Football Hall of Fame existed. If you're anything
like me, it's likely you didn't have a clue about the Hall that is currently being relocated to
Manchester from the National Football Museum in Preston.
I recently received a tweet from an EPL Talk reader asking that we look at creating a post that
discussed the lack of a proper Hall of Fame for the Premier League.
I'm delighted to offer a great report from Head Coach Eddie Horn, Jeff City Jays, on a Youth
Development program trip he was able to take earlier this year to West Ham United. Sponsored by
Umbro, he's documented the trip for us via a Q&A format with his close friend Terry Michler, Head
Coach of the CBC Cadets in St Louis.
By The Coach and 1970's Gooner Why is it that England has not excelled in the international arena
since the 1966 World Cup which was held on home soil? After this famous victory, the fortunes of
England have followed mostly a downward direction. For the next forty years the maximum the
national team has achieved is to reach the semi finals of a major competition only three times: the
1968
After Fabio Capello's resignation from the England managers job last month, England are still
without a manager as Stuart Pearce takes part time charge of the squad in the run up to Euro 2012
and the FA have insisted that no approaches have yet been made to any potential candidates to
become the next England coach.
The Study of English Football [Part IV]: Letting our kids grow up is a post from: Just
Football
Just Football's Study of English Football by Andreas Vou now concludes with
Part IV and a look at how we handle youth development in English society compared to abroad. If you
missed Part I , Part II or Part III follow the respective links:
THE main focus after England's miserable performance at the 2010 World Cup was to find the cause
as to why such a talented side failed so badly.
The FA has confirmed that Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish will not be charged for using
unprofessional language towards Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
The two bosses clashed when the Reds were awarded a penalty deep into stoppage time, with the
Frenchman believing that his players had been hard done by the decision, and TV cameras caught the
Scot swearing at the Gunners manager.
Arsenal patriarch Arsene Wenger looks set to re-open the dormant schism that
exists between himself and the Football Association (FA) by attempting to levy 18-year-old
midfield tyro Jack Wilshere's inclusion in the England U21 squad for next summer's
European Championships in Denmark.
Jamie Carragher has been earmarked as an England manager of the future after being offered a fast
track route into the coaching set-up.
Liverpool veteran Carragher is seen by the Football Association as someone with outstanding
potential after taking his coaching badges.
The FA have seen big names such as Alan Shearer, Jamie Redknapp and Gareth Southgate swap football
and management careers for the TV studio.
The FA's director of football development (and chief executive of the 'Cockney Grimace'
committee) Sir Trevor Brooking has effectively put the kibosh on the rumours that
Steve McClaren was in the running to replace England manager Fabio
Capello when the Italian's contract expires in 2012, by insisting that the current
Wolfsburg coach 'isn't ready' to return to the helm of the national side.
For England, that was the Golden Generation. Actually the last two world cups and the euro thing
in the middle were the tournaments of the Golden Generation. England were about to win
everything. After it was all over in South Africa, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of
football, made a statement.
The English FA, which held talks last week with Coach Fabio Capello in the wake of England's
disappointing World Cup showing, announced its rebuilding plan includes calling up a new generation
of young England stars, order them to play like Spain, and groom a group of top ex-players into
coaching as part of the FA's post World Cup blueprint.
The FA have confirmed that Fabio Capello will continue as the manager of
England, despite his side's woeful showing at this summer's World Cup.
The decision was made at a meeting held by the Club England board (which includes the likes of
the FA's head of media Adrian Bevington and director of Football Development
Sir Trevor Brooking) today, and puts an end to a tense few days of speculation
over the Italian's immediate future.
"England coach Fabio Capello and his team of self-regarding flops have presided over a national
embarrassment, one of the most comprehensive humiliations in our sporting history.
A significant shift in the development of football in England? Louise Taylor at the
Guardian:
England's European Under-17 Championships victory owed much to manager John Peacock's
championing of a short-passing, tactically aware brand of football
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, Spanish egos should be boosted by
yesterday's narrow defeat to England in the final of the European Under-17 Championships.
Big Story
Whatever the legal niceties of it, the backstory of the Premier League's worldwide
poaching of talent is the failure of the Academy scheme domestically, put into place 12 years ago
nationwide, but hardly bringing through an amazing stream of talent.
With just 22 short months left on the meter, the Football Association (FA) are already pressing
ahead with the courting of possible successors to current England manager Fabio
Capello who has signalled his intentions to retire from the game once his contract expires
in July of 2012.
The old adage, England invented the game and the Brazilians mastered it. You wouldn't believe
that if you watched the World Cup in South Africa, as both sides crashed out relatively early. Both
are pondering the question of whether the nationality of a national coach is important, and if it
is important, how much so?
The English Football Association has confirmed that Italian Fabio Capello will remain the
manager of the English national team. There was much speculation that Capello would face the sack
after a 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Germany in the round of sixteen, but with England players and
pundits alike calling for more time, the FA has chosen to stick with their man.
"They are evil, dreadful, disgusting, moronic, the lowest of the low." By Tony Attwood England's
"golden generation" have now had their final, finest hour. As the great guru, Sir Trevor
Brooking, the FA's director of Brooking, said recently, "There is an immediate void in the standard
of the team. World Cup 2014 will be difficult [.
Sir Trevor of FAshire is 64 today, and to celebrate here's a tensome of absolutely cracking vintage photos pulled from the Pies archive (click for full-size images)...
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A 17-year-old Brooking lines up for a West Ham pre-season photocall, 1965
Chelsea broke in its newest addition today with the official opening of the new academy at
Cobham. Among those on hand for the shindig included Sir Trevor Brooking, John Terry, Uncle Phil
and Romes himself nice, dude!
The ceremony came prior to the Cobham Cup kickoff, a subject I'll tackle in my next transcendent
blog post.
Harry Redknapp has had a successful few years down on the South Coast, saving Pompey from
relegation, before establishing them as a serious top-half force and winning the club's first piece
of silverware since 1939. Even though significant numbers of Portsmouth fans still haven't forgiven
him for leaving the club and joining rivals Southampton, 2,000 supporters have signed a petition to
get Redknapp the most sought after gong there is - a KBE.
