At the beginning of this month BBC journalist Dan Roan wrote a fantastic piece highlighting the fact that participation in football in this country is not as high as the FA, or indeed the nation, would like. He notes, in particular, that there has been a “rapid fall in the numbers of 16-19-year-olds” in recent years. This fall is clearly a problem for the FA as they seek to improve the youth development process which has been lacking for so many years in comparison to nations such as Spain, Germany and France.
