1. Revolutionise youth football
Make 9 v 9 mandatory until 12 or 13. Train up and send more skills coaches into schools, working on first touches, encouraging two-footedness and self-expression. Pay youth coaches properly. Build indoor pitches as well as the plethora of outdoor 3G.
2: Improve refereeing asap
Lowest standards in Premier League history currently. Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) officials appear confused, not knowing the difference between careless and reckless and making horrendous calls on simulation (Branislav Ivanovic dived, Cesc Fàbregas did not etc). PGMOL chief Mike Riley should stop undermining the best ref, Mark Clattenburg. He’s a good role model for aspiring refs.
3. Football must respect women
Ched Evans must not return to football yet. The convicted rapist is out only on licence and the full term must be served first. He then has to apologise to his victim and rein in those deluded followers continuing to make her life hellish. Evans has to prove that he has learned to respect women, that they are not a free hit via a mate’s text.
4. Improve atmospheres
Channel some of the new broadcasting booty into subsidising ticket prices. Target the 16-21 age-group important. A generation is being disenfranchised. Implement the Football Supporters’ Federation’s “Twenty’s Plenty” campaign for maximum £20 away ticket.
5. More financial sanity please
Players’ wages must become even more performance-related. Superstars like Sergio Agüero, Fabregas and Wayne Rooney deserve their handsome sums but too many average players are earning inflated salaries simply for sitting on the bench. Southampton have a good scheme for their young players, challenging them to reach the first team, stay in it, and the financial rewards follow.
6. Cut through the paperwork and cut adrift the freeloaders
Greg Dyke, the FA chairman, must live up to his promise of really getting to grips with the work permit loopholes that allow average overseas players to silt up Football League clubs.
7. More brains on board
The restructuring of the FA needs a former England player like Gary Lineker, Graeme Le Saux or John Barnes to be drafted on to the main board. The FA has always had a whiff of the counties and the Rotary Club about it. Some dressing-room expertise is long overdue.
8. Target punishment
For retrospective punishments, one game of the ban should be for the next meeting against the victim team. So instead of Papiss Cissé’s ban for elbowing Everton’s Seamus Coleman being for Newcastle against Burnley (Thursday), Leicester (Saturday) and Chelsea (Jan 10), it would be against Burnley, Leicester and Everton (March 14).
9. Loosen up, wise up
End the stupid rule punishing players for celebrating goals (the idea is to score, the game is emotional). Take the lead and trial video technology, giving managers one appeal to the video ref per half. Try out sin-bins. Let refs clarify points of law post-match.
10. England must start practising penalties before Euro 2016
It’s never too early.
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