Editor,

Plus ça change; haven’t we yet understood that our football problems are much more fundamental than a change in mere national coach?

What we require is a root-and-branch overhaul of our national game from top to bottom and a rethink and complete reset that bases the new system on a rebuilding from the local grassroots level.

Quick fixes won’t work. No national manager, no matter how exceptional, will bring us the immediate glory that we seem to crave.

Mwene Kalinda

Reaction to the story, "McKinstry suffers first defeat as Amavubi coach” (The New Times, March 30)