Jez begins his yomp for youth

I think we all agree Jez George is a good egg.

Not content with overseeing the youth team which has produced first team players such as Willmott, McAuley, and Coulson, he has today set off on his latest "walk for change" to highlight the inqualities in youth funding received by clubs in the non-league when compared to that available to league clubs.

The unjust distribution of money has long been one of football's biggest problems, and spotters badge awarded to the poster on the CUFC messageboard who spotted this little gem in the Observer's excellent Said and Done column:

Number crunching

• £16m: New increased annual Premier League parachute payments to be made to each relegated club, up from £12m. Payments could be extended this summer from two years to four.

• £15m: annual Premier League contribution to the Football Foundation, supporting grassroots football.

So instead of investing in the grassroots game which, lest we forget, provides many of the young players who make the Premier League the spectacle that it is, they prefer to splurge more cash on badly run clubs like Portsmouth (debt: £120million and counting) who pay mediocre shite like John Utaka thousands of pounds a week and can't afford relegation as a result.

One hopes this selfish, short-sighted, approach will come back to bite the Premier League and it's members in their bloated behinds at some stage, but I'm not holding my breath.

More information on the Walk for change and the Protect Football's Future campaign can be found at; http://www.protectfootballsfuture.co.uk/