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August 30, 2016, 8:27pm
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There is no atmosphere at all. We started off brightly but have gradually fizzled out - the half time score line is a fair reflection of how's it's gone unfortunately.


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I'm so pleased that fans across the country are voting with their feet. The grounds are all completely empty. If this doesn't send a message then I don't know what will. There are so many things wrong with football in this country but the state of the football league pyramid is not one of them.  The pride and passion of fans for unfashionable clubs up and down the country at all levels of the pyramid is incredible and is the envy of fans across the world. We're a fourth division side and we're taking more to an away game on Saturday than a lot of Segunda and Serie B teams get at home.

It's time the Premier League, the FA and the FL took their heads out of their arses. The pyramid is fine, it's the fact that all the money is siphoned at the top and very little is allowed to drip down that means we don't produce very many good players. The current set up with the EPPP will only make it worse and introducing B teams will not affect the English players development one bit. If they stopped being so selfish and let more money go to grass roots, so we had coaches teaching kids the basics well, then we might start to compete at international level. But that would mean they stop being so greedy, so I won't hold my breath.


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Having set up the original petition against this, I'm absolutely delighted to see how far and wide the boycott has spread.
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I'm so pleased that fans across the country are voting with their feet. The grounds are all completely empty. If this doesn't send a message then I don't know what will. There are so many things wrong with football in this country but the state of the football league pyramid is not one of them.  The pride and passion of fans for unfashionable clubs up and down the country at all levels of the pyramid is incredible and is the envy of fans across the world. We're a fourth division side and we're taking more to an away game on Saturday than a lot of Segunda and Serie B teams get at home.

It's time the Premier League, the FA and the FL took their heads out of their arses. The pyramid is fine, it's the fact that all the money is siphoned at the top and very little is allowed to drip down that means we don't produce very many good players. The current set up with the EPPP will only make it worse and introducing B teams will not affect the English players development one bit. If they stopped being so selfish and let more money go to grass roots, so we had coaches teaching kids the basics well, then we might start to compete at international level. But that would mean they stop being so greedy, so I won't hold my breath.


That is only one element. England has a major problem with creating coaches, possibly due to people in England not seeing football as a job, rather a hobby. Look at the data, UEFA data shows that England has 1,395 coaches holding Uefa’s A and Pro qualification badges compared to Germany’s 6,934, Italy’s 2,281, France’s 3,308 and Spain’s whopping 15,423. By logical reasoning, we will always be behind.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with the football pyramid. The only thing that other countries look at with envy!


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It's just been announced that the Premier League clubs have broken through the £1 billion mark in terms of transfer fees this summer alone. That has been an extra bitter pill to swallow in I'm sure a night that is going too be seen as a key night in the decline of English Football's lower leagues.

It's a circus now, it really is - it cannot be described as anything else. The powers who be don't give a excrement about lower league football. Anything beyond the Premiership is not important. Anything that can be used as another escape goat about the national teams constant failure will be utilised , hence why they are now messing around with lower leagues as they once did with our top flight. The reality is, it's going to continue too happen until the game we love is gone.

Fans have voted with our feet tonight but does anyone really give a toss ? Checkatrade will be laughing at the publicity it's gained, the winning clubs will be happy with the £10k they've made, the big clubs will be happy that 28 year old Spanish lad who's been moaning for weeks has got a game and the FA/Football League will turn a blind eye too it.

Yeah let's invite u23 clubs into our leagues... I forgot what fantastic shape lower league Spanish football is in. Yeah let's invite the Old Firm into the English game... We might as well kill Scottish football whilst where at it. Let's just ruin the one thing that many people look forward too week after week, month after month and year after year forever.

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