Yes: John Cartwright, Former Lilleshall technical director, Arsenal head coach

I watched the match between Arsenal and Liverpool at the weekend, and you only have to look at Arsenal to see the foundation of the problem. They had no English players on the pitch. Of the four substitutes who came on for the two teams, only two were British. Why don't managers want to use our players? It is because we are not producing the quality of player that is good enough to play in the Premiership. Coaching isn't good enough in club academies or the rest of youth football.

It's a long story which goes back to the end of street football in this country and the beginning of organised coaching at the end of the 1950s. Before then you had children who saw the game being played and went out in the street and tried to recreate what they had seen. They would learn to play without pressure and develop skills. Since the introduction of organised coaching there is always pressure to win. We do not have players capable of winning a World Cup. It is no coincidence that our last success in 1966 came with players who had caught the back end of learning the game at street level.

Coaching would have been fine if it had been undertaken by people who were involved in the professional game, but instead it was done by educationalists - amateurs teaching the professionals. I go to coaching courses and see hardly anyone who has made their living from the game. For coaches to qualify they have to pass courses produced by teachers who set the standards and issue the certification after examination through the Football Association. It's back to front.

There needs to be a complete revamping of the system. Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of football development, is the first person to come in that type of role who had a top professional's background, but he is caught up in fighting political battles. It doesn't matter what business you are in, you must have a target set down and say: "How are we going to run it? What are we trying to achieve?" That has never been done with regards to playing football in England. It's like sending up a spaceship and saying: "We don't know where it's going but we hope it will hit something anyway."

Youth football at a very junior level is based on mediocre standards that aren't good enough. We have a situation where people who have got a poor standard of recognition are telling others that a great player is coming up through the ranks when in fact that player is mediocre.

At international level England might get the odd result but you must not be looking only for results. We need to develop players who will put fans and managers on the edge of their seats.

Coaching at youth and academy level is about drill work, organisation and being part of a team rather than about the skill of individuals. Specifically, we're producing a generation of players who are unable to run with the ball and are instead constantly looking to pass and get rid of it.

It's all very well having a top academy like France's Clairefontaine but you have got to sort out the foundations. We had Lilleshall but it never worked properly - by the age of 14, 15 and 16 the players weren't good enough.

John Cartwright runs Premier Skills, a company providing free coaching courses with an emphasis on skills development.