I have listed below things that i would like to be brought into our game.

1) Just like a footballer can only play for 2 teams in one season, i would only allow clubs to have 2 managers in one season. Clubs can only sack one manager a season. There would of course be exceptions such as a manager being sacked for fighting or some other serious incident, but for pure footballing reasons, a club should only be allowed to sack one manager per season.

2) Towels on the touchline. I’ve seen it a few times now where the home team get the ball boys to give towels to their player who is taking a long through in, but when the away team has tried to get the same towel they haven’t been able to. If the ball is wet, just use your shirt.

3) Cameras on the goal line or a microchip inside the ball. This is a no brainer. If the ball has a microchip inside of it, then as soon as it crosses the line, the referee will be informed. Simple.

4) At least 6 players in a match-day squad of 18 (Starting 11 and 7 subs) should be home grown English players.

5) Any player who tries to get their opponent booked or sent off by waving an imaginary card at the referee or simply asking the referee to book them should in fact be booked themselves.

6) If any player shows dissent towards the referee, aswell as booking that player, the captain of the team will also be booked for not controlling his team.

7) Rolling subs. Substitutions can be made without the game being stopped.

8) Although i can never understand why they do it, when a player scores and then removes their shirt, they should not be booked. The same goes for when players celebrate by getting to close to their fans. They should not be booked for that.

9) Referees should be miked up. Just like Rugby, it would be very interesting to hear what refs are saying and also hearing their reasons for certain decisions. It would also cut down the dissent shown from players towards the ref.

10) People with the name, Mike Ashley, should be banned from buying football clubs.

The number in the brackets beside each player, is the year they played for England.

1) Chris Kirkland (2006)
2) Michael Ball (2001)
3) Stephen Warnock (2008)
4) Lee Bowyer (2002)
5) Neil Ruddock (1994)
6) Anthony Gardner (2004)
7) Seth Johnson (2000)
8) Joey Barton (2007)
9) Dean Ashton (2008)
10) Chris Sutton (1997)
11) Alan Thompson (2004)

Subs:

12) Francis Jeffers (2003)
13) Nigel Spink (1983)
14) Steve Guppy (1999)
15) David Nugent (2007)
16) Gavin McCann (2001)
17) David Unsworth (1995)
18) Michael Ricketts (2002)

Another interesting fact……….. 5 different players scored a Hat-trick on their one and only appearance for England. They were,

1) Albert Allen – Year: 1888 Opposition: Ireland
2) Frank Bradshaw – Year: 1908 Opposition: Austria
3) Walter Gilliat – Year: 1893 Opposition: Ireland
4) John Veitch – Year: 1894 Opposition: Wales
5) John Yates – Year: 1889 Opposition: Ireland

The FA want us the fans to vote for their favoured cities, so i urge everyone to use the link below and submit your choice.

Obviously i’ll be supporting the Newcastle-Gateshead bid, and i hope you do to, but its your choice.

Click Here: http://www.england2018bid.com/support/register.aspx

There’s a number of cities that are almost 100% to be selected like London and Manchester (Wembley and Old Trafford), but then you have bids from cities like Newcastle and Sunderland where it gets a bit trickier.

You see the problem is, usually Fifa don’t allow more than 1 stadium in the same city or area to stage matches in a World Cup, so with Newcastle and Sunderland being only about 10 miles apart, that rules out both cities being selected.

So the battle is on now to see who will be selected and just this week Sunderland launched their official “Sunderland 2018 World Cup Host City” bid and official website.

That’s where the laughs start…. You see, on the official “Sunderland Bid” website, they have a selection of glossy photographs showing off all that’s good about the city of Sunderland, and they include…… Bamburgh Beach, Durham Cathedral, Stockton Bridge and the best one….. The Newcastle Quayside.

Wow…. So they think to themselves, how can we promote Sunderland? Ah yes… lets show them Newcastle…Our nearest rival.

It’ll be interesting aswell, when their bid takes shape and they talk about easy air connections direct to Sunderland…. Via Newcastle.