Youth Plan Only the Start of Revolution; Sfa Chief Hopes the Entire Game Will Be Restructured, Finds Alan Campbell

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IT will be the slow revolution. SFA chief executive David Taylor hopes that the publication last week of the long-awaited Action Plan for Youth Football will eventually lead to the entire game in Scotland being restructured.

Change, though, takes a long time in Scottish sport and the (pounds) 100,000 report itself took almost a year from its arrival at Hampden last May to be made public on Tuesday. The report, commissioned from sports consultancy PMP, has required considerable tweaking, and even last November the Sunday Herald exclusively reported it had been declared financially unworkable by a senior SFA finance official.

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Youth Plan Only the Start of Revolution; Sfa Chief Hopes the Entire Game Will Be Restructured, Finds Alan Campbell

Now, with the backing of the Executive and sportscotland, Taylor is confident that the money is in place to fund the (pounds) 31.1 million, 10-year action plan. There are two chief aims: to improve the standard of player available ...

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