Arsenal & English football

I have not blogged for some time but the takeover of Arsenal has inspired me. What is left of the English premier league except that it is played in England. How many English managers are there? How many English players are there and who owns the club? I find it odd that so-called English premier teams have any English fans. But is it not symptomatic of the English disease. We no longer own anything, manage anything are, most of the time, produce anything. We are consumers and heavily in debt, as individuals. The government and the experts keep going on about the national deficit but ignore the private debt because without it we would be totally screwed.

I am sure many of the fans will be pleased if they think the new owner will pump money into the club but does it make sense to support a team which is just an excuse form some rich man to have as his play thing. If he is lucky he will make money out of it but it will be the suckers at the turnstile and in the pubs who are paying him. We had an outcry when Krafts bought Cadbury but with football teams it doesn't seem to matter. They bring players from overseas, not giving local players a chance to develop, they employ foreign managers and still don't succeed. We wonder why we do badly at international football, well why would a foreign manager of a premiership club ever consider the needs of the national English team.

There are a number of points, do we not train enough English managers, there are not that many premiership clubs, are our footballers not good enough and why don't English billionaires want to own football clubs. We don't train people to manage things which is why somuch of industry is owned by foreign companies.

There was an item on the news today about Longbridge. It is producing cars again, even one's designed here BUT and it is a big but, the only other thing we do is assemble them, everything else is done in China and the whole thing is built in China.

When is Britain going to take education and training seriously, especially with repect to manufacturing industry.