Appointing foreign coaches is an embarrassment.
You talk about Spain and Germany, did they use foreign coaches to turn-around their success?
No.
They did it themselves.
We've got St George's Park now.
Let's do it ourselves.
I don't care about who is in charge providing our national team is successful.
Spain and Germany have had the foresight to enhance academies whilst produce exciting, technical footballers who treat the ball as a friend and not as an alien like our country seems too. The point I was making when talking about them is that the lack of people in this country applying to become coaches is vastly smaller than those nations - the ratio of coaches to players in this country is 1:812 whereas in Spain it's 1:17.
We are a long way behind.
And St Georges Park - brilliant. That is really going to solve the problem of English football.
We need more facilities like those dotted around the country. It's quite stationary having it placed in Burton. One down south, one in London, one up North would be beneficial - of course I realise money makes that an issue.
Then we have to address what they're being taught. Sessions need to be innovative. Pitches could do with being smaller and having 4 on 4 games, allowing young players more touches of the ball in a tight environment. They then need to be taught tactically, how to overcome situations and what is expected of 442 formation, or 352, or a 4231 etc - whether this happens at St Georges Park or academies at football clubs.
In addition to that point above, this needs to be happening from a very young age. Get them playing football and receiving coaching at the ages of 5 and 6, not too late that they've missed out on vital parts of their development. Children learn a lot from their moment their born until the age of six - in that time we should be getting them involved and taught the fundamentals of the game - pass and control.
That's just the start of it.
And then later down the line it will need changes to the leagues to allow them a platform to perform.
Having St Georges Park and hoping that will magically produce footballers won't work.