Boyd is absolutely spot on , if you don’t have £40 per month you can’t pay for your child to join the local football team , it’s ridiculous, schools padlocking the Astro pitch to stop Wayne’s using it to

Not a bad idea Stuart, what do you think football family

The Premier League combined domestic and international TV rights since 2000 = £55 billion £1.04 billion of this money has been paid into the football foundation for grassroots football As you can see this is not 5% as they agreed and grassroots football is owed £Millions

THE TRUTH from 21 years ago by @david_conn

Excellent article and this needs reading people

Congratulations to grassroots club Ridgeway Rovers for playing their small part in producing the 2026 #BallonDor winner Harry Kane Remember every football player starts off in grassroots football and we should never forget this people

Humble beginnings at @Ridgeway_fc

You don’t get to win a #BallonDor without the help/support of grassroots football along the way and we should never forget this #savegrassrootsfooty

Made worse when you have certain teams that own 2 been hiring them out for massive money then 12 years in the first pitch needs replacing now doing a go fund me to raise funds where has the money gone you raised from hiring the pitch out all these years?

Almost all public facilities near me where the subject of a community asset transfer to a club post COVID So not only have costs gone up, you have to fund another club if you want to play there 🤷‍♂️

Love it - charge parents £4000 a week then nick the best kids for free and still parents fall for the propaganda 🤣🤣 “…Next Monday, during half-term, dozens of children will pack into Chelsea’s training ground. These players have not been selected. Rather, they will be at Cobham because their parents have paid for coaching. Each week at Chelsea, parents pay £120 an hour for children to receive one-on-one coaching. This is merely a glimpse of how clubs monetise parents. A two-week camp at Charterhouse School next summer, during which children train for up to 24 hours each week with Chelsea coaches, costs £4,700. Training is so bespoke that there are even goalkeeping camps…” telegraph.co.uk/football/202…

“Football today is a business, but it’s the only business that most of the employees eg the players are on more £money than their boss” that’s why they think they can put the boss under a bus

This is happening more and more and it’s mainly the private academies that are run as a business. Not the community ones that are non profit!

Any other grassroots clubs/teams relate to this below we can

Local school with 3G that we’ve used for 7 years had their pitch relayed this year with support from football foundation with their football policy being about community clubs using it. They’ve thrown a lot of clubs - including ours - off it now as they are prioritising one club.

The great grassroots football rip-off

Grassroots football people

It’s silly. I coach in grassroots and at the moment there is 2 artificial pitches for 30 teams in the area so nobody can get a slot. And what you can get is expensive. For an hours session it’s £120 on the local 4g

It really is unfortunate. It’s the same here in Toronto, where parents have to sacrifice financially now to have their kids play in sports.