Football - Back to Basics

Football - The Multi-Billion pound industry, where the players are the pinnacle of success. With companies from team bus transport, to catering. From betting companies to PR. Where one shot of Beckham can make a pair of socks sell out by the next day.

Where tactics are everything, losing that amazing natural football grit and determination. Where betting companies can employ statisticians who can invariably work out who will score next, who will win the match. Where we have lost that awe of sheer talent - I'm not saying that the top Guy's aren't talented, but once your in those top teams, they literally train that talent out of you, so you will play those set moves.

Where you initially loved Football, lived for football, breathed football. Where every day when you got home from school you ran upstairs to change into football kit and went playing on the field till it was too dark to see the ball. When the excitement of grabbing your scarf and setting off to the match was incredible.

How much fun to throw your jumpers on the ground to mark the goal posts, to have 30 of you from school, scouts, youth club playing on the pitch at the same time. 15 a-side, with no referee, yet no trouble at all - just team work and laughter. No set time each way, in fact probably not swapping sides at all. Playing on a sandy beach, playing in a clearing in the woods, playing on a hillside, with holes in the ground that could swallow your foot - yet no one broke their ankle!!!

I saw this video the other day. There's nothing like nature to remind you of what football IS about - and it's not those billions of pounds???

No matter how high up the football pyramid you go, No matter how many millions you make - NEVER lose sight of what made you love the sport in the first place x