Youth sport got professionalised and the result is ten year olds with strength programmes and nobody left to make up the numbers on a Sunday.
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The other half is that there is nowhere left to play badly. Every pitch is booked by a club and casual use is a trespass.
The academies take the best forty and the other four hundred quietly stop playing, which is the opposite of what a sport needs.
Nobody plays for the sake of it any more because there is no format left where that is the point. Every league has a table by under-nines.
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