Article: Football: Brooking fights to secure funds for academy plan; ENGLAND.(Sport)

Byline: BY SIMON STONE Daily Post Correspondent

JUST days after appointing England's second foreign manager, Sir Trevor Brooking has called on the Football Association to back the 'Burton project' to ensure a home-grown talent can fill the post in future.

The National Football Centre initiative, a brainchild of former FA technical director Howard Wilkinson, has been on ice for the past 12 months as Soho Square officials concentrated their efforts on getting Wembley up and running, then negotiating massively improved new TV deals.

Brooking is convinced the income from those new contracts should be used to complete the pounds 60million centre at Burton which, when ...

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