Encourage kids to stay out all evening playing football.

Agree with all of what you wrote apart from this.

This is impossible. When most people in football decision making positions were growing up, you had 4 channels on TV, no mobiles, no internet, and no video games. Added to this the income gap in the country was as such whereby there was a distinct working class who couldn't afford these types of luxuries in the first place.

So they stayed out all day playing football.

Kids now have so much to do and thanks to stranger danger and other initiatives, parents are so scared of letting them play out, that we need a rethink on how best to approach the problem of lack of playing time.

We can't ask the world to rewind itself socially so that we can win a World Cup. Instead we need to do as you say and put more money and more protections in the bottom end of the game, put MUCH more money into coaching education to attract younger aged coaches straight out of GCSE level, put a greater focus on reeducation by forcing all qualified coaches to become members of the FA Coaching Club and making them resit their tests every three years like we do with Safeguarding Certificates, and other initiatives in this direction.

Having the Level 1 and Level 2 Coaching award built into a Physical Education GCSE would be a great start if properly managed.

We need to get out of this idea that the local football coach is a 40 year old fat bastard who wants to long ball it everywhere and wears his medals to every training session. We need fresh blood with new ideas and new determination and that's what we lack - young people think that coaching is for old people and old people tend to be set in their ways. One of the major advancements made in Germany and Spain wasn't really the number of coaches, but instead the age of new coaches in my opinion.