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FOR decades Bristol City's academy structure has failed to produce much in the way of homegrown talent in the first team – but Tim Kirk, the incoming academy director at Ashton Gate is hoping to instigate a "complete change of culture".
It's no small task – to turn a footballing graveyard of ambition into a dynamic development structure worthy of its new motto – "where potential meets opportunity".
But Tim says he is the man for the job – a former private school teacher, whose most recent role has been with the Premier League, restructuring the national mish-mash of club academies into a league-style structure.
He believes he has the experience and mindset to transform the Bristol City Academy into a 21st century training organisation capable of living up to the example demonstrated by some of the world's leading footballing nations such as Germany and Spain.
"The important thing is that my background is first and foremost in education," he says. "Traditionally the academy has always been run by academy managers who were invariably ex-footballers, with no experience of education or coaching – who were only really able to reproduce the kind of training they had gone through a decade or two earlier."
Thanks in large part to the work Tim did in his time with the Premier League, the landscape is rapidly changing for club academies.
"It's becoming much more business-minded," he says. "It's being taken seriously in the way that it is on the Continent.
"After all, the academy should be the heartbeat of the club – it's where the new blood is coming from, but it should also be a big part of the business, bringing in revenue to the club by nurturing talent that later becomes a valuable commodity for the club – the way the financiers see these things, these youngsters ultimately represent future revenue."
Tim, who is from Bath, has worked part time as a coach with the academy for the past eight years, and was offered the new role after agreeing to undertake a review of the academy's performance.
"Ultimately the fact that there are only two full-time first-team players that have come through the academy system at the club is something of an indictment of the academy's failings over the years," he says. "But we're going to turn that around."
The restructure of the academy will see its current staff of six increased to 20 full-time coaches and educators – with the club investing an extra £1.2 million a year after the first year, in order to maintain its place as a "category two" academy – within the new league tables devised by Tim in his previous incarnation.
"When you look at the Premier League and the numbers of English players coming out with Premier League clubs each Saturday, it clearly demonstrates that something is very wrong with the way we've been doing things.
"In the German Bundeslige clubs have an average of 52 per cent German talent, in Spain's La Liga clubs have an average of 72 per cent Spanish talent. But here in England, Premier League clubs have an average of just 34 per cent English footballers.
"It's all to do with the culture of the academies. The accepted figure is that to become elite at any sport or art, you need to have spent 10,000 hours practising it before your reach the age of 21. But for footballers going through the academies here, they have seen only 3,760 hours of coaching contact on average.
"That puts us at the bottom of the table for footballing nations. In most other countries in Europe the figure is double that. If you look at other disciplines it's often more – at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, in Surrey, for example, 21-year-olds have clocked up 9,200 hours of contact with their tutors.
"So it's no wonder that we just don't produce the kind of elite performing footballers that other countries produce – it's no wonder that we never seem able to measure up to other nations at these international tournaments."
Tim says he agreed to come to Bristol precisely because the city has failed so spectacularly over the years to produce home-grown footballing talent.
"For a city of this size, we should be producing many more quality footballers," he says. "This is a city that, as far as I can recall, has never produced an England international.
"I think that's partly to do with the demographic of the area – the fact that there is such a high concentration of private schools here, which encourage their sporting elite towards rugby rather than football. But that's not really much of an excuse.
"So I know the potential is here for me to come and make a big difference – I know that talent must be out there in the city, and it's just a matter of engaging with the youngsters.
"I think the most gifted have often been put off from pursuing a career in football because we have always said that in order to get through the academy system, you have to forget the rest of your education at the age of 16.
"We need to set up a much more American academy model, where youngsters are nurtured academically as well as sportingly. That will be my aim. Everton is currently preparing to open a boarding school for its academy youngsters, and maybe that is the way for the future.
"But I think we should certainly ensure that they have a rounded education and the opportunity to further themselves academically.
"Football is a complex game now, and we need intelligent and educated players.
"Gone are the days of 4-4-2 formations, where there were three strict units working on the pitch – the game is much more fluid now, with players expected to shift formation often through the match in order to react to the opposition. That takes a lot of intelligent thinking.
"We need to start bringing through players who are able to display a degree of independent intelligent thinking throughout a match, rather than just sticking strictly to the game plan devised by the manager before the kick-off.
"We have to start working now on the talent for the future. I think over the next few years we will see the role of the academy becoming ever-more important in the life of the club."
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Google's Project Glass has been one of the most anticipated and hyped projects to come out of Google in quite some time. After a rather epic demo the company finally gave us a slightly deeper look at the wearable computer of our (supposed) future. Inside is the usual set of components you'd expect inside any mobile phone. There's a "powerful" CPU and "lots" of RAM (though, there was no mention of specifics) alongside an accelerometer, gyroscope and wireless radios for pulling in data. There's a mic for voice commands, a speaker and a camera, which can also be controlled by the touchpad that lines the side of the wearable device. All of those components sit off to one side, though Google says they're still well-balanced and actually lighter than some pairs of sunglasses. The tiny transparent display doesn't actually sit directly in front of your eye. It's slightly above your line of vision, so that it shouldn't interfere with your normal life.
Sergey Brin had three different prototypes on stage -- a light blue pair, a white pair and a black pair -- indicating that personalization and style were concerns. And that's a good thing since Glass is meant to be worn in public. Ultimately Google hopes that the project will be the next step in its quest to make information quickly and universally accessible. The ability to capture images from the first person perspective seems to be key to the device. In a new demo video, a new mother waxes about how hard it is to capture those perfect moments with her child. She "smiles at faces not devices" which makes sticking a D5 in the baby's face a bad idea.
If you're impatient and lucky enough to have been at IO (and live in the US), you can actually pre-order an Explorer Edition of the wearable computer for $1,500. The dev focused units will be shipping early next year. But, be warned, this is not a mass consumer item and will likely be more than a little rough around the edges.
Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's opening keynote at our event hub!
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ICAN remember my first visit to the Hippodrome better than I can remember most of yesterday, even though it was 40 years ago and I was about eight years old. It was memorable because it was magical.
And it was magical because it was the first time I'd been to a theatre and the first time I'd seen a TV star in real life.
And I was transfixed by both. Which, on the TV stars front, is surprising. Because they were Ronnie Corbett and Clodagh Rodgers. In panto. Cinderella, I think.
The name Clodagh Rodgers will mean nothing to readers under the age of 40. But she really meant something back then. She was a household name, an Irish singer, who often appeared on Saturday night programmes like The Two Ronnies or Morecambe and Wise.
But what really held my attention was the experience. The theatre felt like an ornate, velvety cocoon. The stars really did look larger than life. The music was loud and impressive. It was probably the first time I had heard live music like that.
I remember being close enough to notice that Ronnie Corbett was sweating in his Buttons costume and that Clodagh's blonde curls were not as blonde or as curly as they seemed on our DER rental set at home.
But no matter. I laughed like a drain at every terrible joke and sang along loudly to every contrived re-working of the hits of the day. As far as I remember, my nan managed to stop arguing with my dad for long enough to come with us and I remember looking along the faces of my family as they all laughed, family feuds forgotten in the moment.
Ironically, however, my strongest memory of that first visit is leaving the building. I vividly remember emerging from the warm, red room in to the cold night – straight to the No 1 bus stop directly outside from which we would return to Brislington.
And that's what I see still every time I leave a show at the Hippodrome. My sister, my mum and my dad silhouetted in the crowd against the lights of the centre. And, regardless of the time of year, I cannot help but be filled with the same impatient expectation for the bus and for Christmas Day.
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AN author whose novel was ad- apted into a Hollywood film gave a talk at John Cabot Academy in Kingswood.
Ben Mee, author of We Bought a Zoo, gave a talk to 160 students at the school yesterday afternoon.
He explained the story which inspired the book, which charts how his family bought a dilapidated zoo in Dartmoor in 2006.
Before taking part in a question and answer session with pupils, the writer told pupils about the trials and tribulations he experienced such as having a 150lb jaguar on the loose, dealing with a rat infestation and losing his wife to cancer.
A comedy drama film based on the book was released in 2011 starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.
Janet Allen, a learning co-ordinator at the school, said the school was put in contact with Mr Mee through one of the parents. She said the event promoted the importance of literacy and reading to the students.
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A MUCH admired ex-policeman, who settled in Bristol after a stint in Palestine and London has passed away, aged 84. David Lewis was born in Vine Cottage, Midland Road, in Bristol as the middle child of three.
He relished junior school and finished his education at Bristol Grammar.
Mr Lewis was orphaned, and by the age of 16 he started work in the offices of WD & HO Wills and not long afterwards met his future bride Mary.
They both came from Non-Conformist families and met at a church pageant in the Victoria Rooms.
He first proposed at 17 years of age and after being turned down he joined the Palestine Police Force, serving there from 1945 to 1948 when the British withdrawal from Palestine took place.
He finally swept Mary off her feet in October, 1948 when they married. Over the next three years they had two children, Rosemarie and Robert.
Initially he joined the Metropolitan Police before transferring to the Bristol force, living in a police house in Canford Lane.
He became tired of life in the force and became a travelling salesman before joining his wife in managing a china shop in East Street Bedminster where they lived over the shop.
After a few years they bought out the owner and built up a successful business there.
With the redevelopment of the area they took a huge gamble and became the first independent retailer to open a shop in Broadweir where they ran a thriving gift shop for 29 years. He became very well known in the retail gift trade and was admired and respected for his honesty and willingness to help others
Osteo-arthritis forced his early retirement at the age of 63, in 1991.
While in business he and his wife enjoyed going on holiday to France.
They enjoyed going to the theatre but much of their sparse leisure time was spent at their 300-year-old home in Portishead which they bought in 1968.
In later years, unable to face long journeys to France they enjoyed annual trips to the Lake District.
An interest in history, politics, economics, music and crime fiction reflected the breadth of his character.
He died on June 13, 2012 at the BRI after a heart attack.
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