esmer":253jcp3y said:
Fat_green_belly":253jcp3y said:
Statto head on here.
When england won the world cup in 66, liverpool the domestic champions only used 14 players
all season out of a 29 man squad. Info from my 66-67 playfair football annual.
According to this link liverpool have retained a squad size of 62 for this coming PL season. Plus
i guess new signings on top to be added. Plus a team of scolars for youth games.
https://www.premierleague.com/news/408901
Chelsea i note have retained a ridiculous 92 man squad so they could field about 8 teams if they
wanted too. So we could be playing a chelsea Z team in the checkacrap never mind a B/u23 one.
So how does all of this herding and kettling benefit young talent. Seems obscene to me.
I take it that these players will be nearly all u21s because of these squad size rules for a PL season?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... ad-3349993
It also says 8 of the 25 allowed in the 1st team squad have to be homegrown but it doesnt look
like future england players are prioritised much looking at those rules.
Interestingly chelsea used just 22 players out of 28 back in 65-66 back in the days
when british
football reigned supreme at club and international level.
Unlike now.
Just go back the way it was ffs. Let the clubs develop kids locally and buy them when
they have established themselves in their or other first teams. The same with kids abroad as well.
The PL can still develop their own kids from their own footie mad communities just like they have
always done successfully before.
Aid the FA to fund coaching courses for smaller clubs to raise the standard nationally and not
so PL specific as it is now. Then the cream can rise to the top naturally again.
We failed to qualify for the world cup finals over a twenty year period from 1962 to 1982 (we were hosts in 1966 and champions in 1970), hardly reigning supreme.
Or we failed to qualify for an 8 year period from 1970 to 1978. So 2 world cups.
Reigning supreme, well sorry to disappoint you but we did at that time as we were the
official world champions for the remainder of the sixties and celtic and man united won
consecutive european titles the following 2 seasons as well.
Bobby charlton, gordon banks and bobby moore were all seen as world class at that time and
similarly in georgie best british football had arguably the best in the world at
club level.
So england world champions in 66. Celtic european champions 67 and man utd in 68.
So for me thats british football reigning supreme.
The 1970 finals i thought we put in a good defence of the title as well tbh.
Ramsey and cloughies polish clown turned superman of a keeper kept us out of the 74 finals
and don revies team losing out only on goal difference to italy in 78.
They were the narrowest of margins. Similarly in 82 we were hampered by injuries to keegan,
who was the european footballer of the year at that time, and brooking. We were very close
to a semi final in that tournament, even so, if i remember correctly.
86 was the hand of god incident again in the QFs. Really unlucky and same again in
1990 when we reached the semis and went out on pens.
So not reigning supreme internationally after the 6os but most certainly we were always
seen as a threat unlike now.
British clubs won a host of european trophies all around the 70s and 80s as well.