“In the years to come the number of footballers worth watching will be less and less and football will become less enjoyable”
Fascinating comments as always from Marcelo Bielsa. Can’t deny thinking similar once or twice watching games at #EURO2024
Thinking about this letter today. This is a bold thing to write and it will also take many, many more people to speak out publicly - not only excellent former teachers like him but former pupils and parents - before anything changes for the better.
An excellent letter in The Times this morning from @ClaughtonJohn — who, if memory serves, combined his work as a master at Eton with writing cricket reports for the Independent on Sunday.
Gary Lineker suspended by the BBC for upsetting the Conservatives because he stood up for some of the most vulnerable people in the world. The same BBC whose chairman gave the Conservatives £400,000 before helping to arrange an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson