TONY Pulis says English football is abandoning its best managers and coaches far too early and believes there is a role for them in the country's top Academies.
Pulis, who has watched the dramatic expansion of Stoke's own Academy in the past 18 months, admits he does have on-going reservations about the nation's youth system.
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"We have some outstanding coaching talent in this country which we get rid of too early: Terry Venables, George Graham and Joe Royle to name three. They should be involved in youth development in this country."
Pulis, speaking to the Daily Telegraph, also has strong opinions on the nation's youth as a whole and believes in a return to the ideals of National Service.
"My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.
"We have to find a way of giving them a chance. I'd pay more tax to know that these kids finishing school at 16 had something to wake up to, instead of staying in bed until 4pm, going down the dole office on a Thursday, or standing on street corners getting involved in drugs and drink with no focus, no guidance and no hope.
"I'd go back to a system close to National Service. I'd bring kids into the Army, Navy or Air Force or find trades for them. Apprenticeships. Pay them.
"There are loads of good principles we've lost as a nation. Discipline. Organisation. Respect. I was brought up with those. I think back to when I was growing up in Wales."
Pulis says he shares much of his social and political beliefs with Stoke chairman Peter Coates and his son and daughter John and Denise.
"Peter's a great person. He enjoys a drink. The next day you've got your head around your backside and Peter's as bright as a button – and he's 75.
"If it all fell down tomorrow and I left the club, the one thing I've said to him, John and Denise is I just want to stay friends with them. One day it'll happen, but the respect I have for them won't change."
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