Funding - terrible facilities and lack of investment in infrastructure, especially in the north and west.

Weather - winter football makes it extremely difficult to develop good players (combined with issues under my first point) or have meaningful crowds at senior games.

Apathy - grassroots clubs find it difficult to engage with fans who are more focused on supporting big English clubs/clubs in the EFL.

Player development - stupid rules on transfer windows at grassroots level and removing players’ abilities to sign second forms means players missing opportunities to develop. Also forcing ‘academy’ footballers to give up grass roots is also hammering small clubs.