After a decade of planning – and still longer, of course, of pondering – the English FA has finally announced plans to open a national football centre. To be open in 2012, St. George's Park, as it's called, will be a hub of all things football: coaching, training, sports science – in every way a "university of football," realized through the planned injection of over a hundred million pounds.
Here in Canada, we've got an "ad hoc committee" looking at establishing a domestic professional league, while our de facto national league is set to remove quotas for Canadian clubs to have Canadian players.
Just, y'know, in case the MLS Cup being in Toronto gave anyone an inflated impression of the state of Canadian soccer in relative terms. (Which, to be fair, it really shouldn't have done.)[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]