Louis Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 Nice article on Hundred Percent about the new role of the FA. http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=17920 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blueboy122 Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 It could well be argued that the FA should never really have been seen as the protector of the game in the first place. It was formed in 1863 which in my reckoning places it firmly in the era when football was still considered an amateur sport to be primarily enjoyed by the upper classes. From the 1880s onwards football became professional and the working class made it much more their game. OK my history probably isn’t entirely accurate but the point is that the FA has never really moved out of the era it was born in. It still sees itself as an old boys club and probably wistfully dreams of the days when FA cup finals were contested by public shool teams. I know there isn’t an obvious solution to all of this but if the FA are going to remain stuck in their own little uncaring world then football fans don’t need them anymore. The answer is to let them fade away into the mists of time and move on with something else, but I’ve no idea how to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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