Why does the mail claim that the singing of the Bonfire song is new, why do you suddenly say it is wrong and not banter to sing about burning people. This song has been sung for as long as I can remember just with Scousers in the place of Rio. How can you or anyone claim it is racist or just plain wrong now. Surely it has been just as wrong for the past decades when it has been sung about one particular group of people. Surely if England get punished it is only logical to give the exact same punishment to Man Utd who came up with the original version of the song.Interesting discussions on coaching in England going on in the mailbox over the last couple of days. Yes, the FA have done something about this, which is great to see. However, I'm not convinced by what I perceive to be an insistence that England copy/aspire to the way Spain play.I don't think you could ever make technique the main thing for kids, because kids don't want to be the one with the highest pass completion rates. Kids, in the UK anyway, always want to be the one to smash in the most goals, or to be stronger or faster than anyone else. I think that is intrinsically in culture here, so while children's technique can be developed, kids want to tell their mates how hard they can hit it.The other concern is this. English people are physically different to Spanish people. England have a lot of players from Caribbean heritage, mixed into the traditional northern European lineage. We are probably somewhere between France (with their African players), the Netherlands and Germany in terms of the physical makeup of our team. In my opinion, we should be moulding a way of playing that supplements that, and I'm concerned that we're trying to fit our players to a way of playing that may not suit them. I would say that. I would imagine that looking to the Netherlands and Germany for inspiration would be more successful than looking towards Iberia.
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