Talk:Glenn Hoddle Academy

Construction
I'm working on this article at the moment, and believe it will be suitable once completed. (Just-an-Ipswich-fan (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC))


 * I've tagged the article as underconstruction and will check back in 24 hours. Best, - auburn pilot   talk  19:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Opening statement
"Hoddle set the academy up in the memory of his brother, Carl, a former Tottenham Hotspur player who died aged 40", surely then, it would be called the Carl Hoddle Academy? Grunners (talk) 15:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Article issues
This article is written like a news release:
 * The introduction does not state what the academy does, just when it was founded and why.
 * The article refers to Glenn Hoddle as simply "Glenn" on two occasions.
 * The "Objectives" section is before the "Overview" section and is disproportionately longer.
 * It also quotes the academy's own website's press releases, e.g. "[Hoddle] is committed to turning his vision into reality" and "the first signs that Hoddle's commitment was paying off came..."


 * The "Overview" section contains information that has no relevance to the article, e.g. "[Hoddle] has had offers from 60 countries asking him to set up similar academies
 * More PR: "Hoddle is confident he is attracting a higher standard of talent than ever before"
 * The "Jerez Industrial" section is outdated. It talks of "this season" - when was that? It mixes future tense, like "[Hoddle] will have an overseeing role", and past tense, "In March 2011, the academy terminated the agreement".
 * "The Facility" section is completely advertorial: "The players stay in luxury villas" etc.
 * The list of players at the academy contains as many red links as blue ones. They are not notable players.

It might not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations:
 * The academy's website is down and its domain is for sale. As such, it's difficult to determine whether the academy is still running.
 * There is also some confusion about the academy's location. It is listed as being in the UK but the whole article talks about it being in Spain.
 * The academy has received very little recent media coverage. Most of the articles about it were written around 2009 and 2010.

If the article is to stay on Wikipedia, it needs a complete rewrite, but if the academy has now closed, I think it would be better to simply nominate it as an article for deletion. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Estesark (talk • contribs) 13:56, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Updated information
Per this 2012 report, http://footballspeak.com/post/2012/04/22/Second-Chance.aspx, the academy moved back to England, however it was closed down per comments in http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2836202/GLENN-HODDLE-Ikechi-Anya-gone-stacking-shelves-scoring-against-world-champions.html - which also suggests, if the page is kept, that it should be mentioned that Ikechi Anya has gone on to become an international footballer with Scotland. Flamefew (talk) 06:15, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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