From the Times report, The English Football Association board has unanimously approved the development of an elite training centre for the national team in Burton-on-Trent.

The state-of-the-art complex will be a training camp for the England team at all levels and a base for the residential training programme for FA coaches.

It has (actually) nothing to do with the new appointed England manager Fabio Cappelo so the FA decided to build the new ground.

Their original plan was initially drawn up in 2001 to place England’s facilities on a par with those in France, Germany and Italy, but was mothballed during the construction of the new Wembley Stadium.

No wonder the England national team has not reach any significant success they deserve all these years. It is a bit funny where the mother of football has no decent training facilities.

“I’m delighted that the board has given the green light for a National Football Centre,” Brian Barwick, the FA chief executive, said as quoted from the Times.

“This is a major step forward for the project. There was general agreement within the board that a National Football Centre would be a major asset in the development of players, coaches and referees in this country.”

The development of new training ground is to believe will costs at around £80 million from the original estimates of £50 million. £20 million already spent on acquiring the land and laying out eight floodlit pitches of the 350-acre site.

Would you believe this: Sam Allardyce have a supporter inside the England Football Association. Telegraph.co.uk reporting today, John Barnwell, the League Managers Association chief executive, said that Allardyce would not reject an offer to take over from Steve McClaren, who was dismissed following England’s elimination from Euro 2008.

I’m a bit surprise when I found the article from a forum that I regularly visit. I can say this is a good news or bad news for Newcastle United, in term of what so call ‘Long Term Revolution’.

Allardyce was interviewed for the England job last year after Sven-Goran Eriksson left the post, and he will no need to do that again if the FA can’t find any suitable replacement for the England job sooner.

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If the England Football Association found it hard to get the right one to coaching the England team and consider it as the impossible job, what about managing Newcastle United?

Sam Allardyce spent more than seven years at Bolton Wanderers before establishing himself as one of the country’s most innovative and forward-thinking managers he used to be. But now he is at the club with the most passionate and have so little patience like Newcastle United.

I was used to have more patience when dealing what’s going on at the Tyneside club, I’m not the kind of supporter who want instant success and was against sacking any managers when he is only got short time to deliver something for the club. But the current situation is making me speechless.

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