Every other stadium is being modernised it seems. Faster players grace the league every year, and they are fitter and stronger than the class that preceded them too.

But there is an anomaly in amongst all this progress, something that cuts against the grain in the least attractive way, especially for a business that is beamed to 101 countries around the world bringing in £1bn a year.

They are the dinosaurs of football that trade off their so-called experience to win jobs. And that’s putting it diplomatically.

However, there are a growing number of frustrated ex-footballers, most of whom are former teammates of mine, who have either finished their careers or are coming to the end of their playing days but cannot get work in the game as a coach or a manager.

The ageing British manager is keeping out the young British manager and it is causing a great deal of resentment throughout the game.

So far this season West Ham, Everton, West Brom, and Crystal Palace have replaced outgoing managers with David Moyes (54), Sam Allardyce (63), Alan Pardew (56), and Roy Hodgson (70) respectively.

On the face of it, there are genuine reasons for appointing these managers. Experience is an obvious factor and so is the fact that at one point or another all of these managers have managed to get different clubs to punch above their weight.

But they have all failed too. Pardew signed an eight-year contract with Newcastle and left less than halfway through.

Allardyce signed a two and a half year contract with Palace last season and left after five months. The less said about David Moyes’ record post-Everton the better.

Hodgson was a disaster at Liverpool, winning less than half of his 31 games. His tenure with England ended in abject embarrassment when the Three Lions were knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland.

However, he lasted longer than the 90 minutes than Sam Allardyce managed in the hot seat, the Dudley-born man ironically losing his job partly for taking the piss out of Hodgson’s speech impediment in a sting operation by a national newspaper.

If the national team are falling into the same trap as our domestic clubs, then there really is a problem.

Last week I spoke to Richard Cresswell, the former Stoke City and Leeds United striker.

Richard is highly qualified. He has every badge going and is full of forward-thinking ideas.

Recently he applied for a job at the FA. He wasn’t even given an interview. Worse, the FA didn’t even acknowledge his application. He assures me that the job went to a less qualified candidate.

But maybe we shouldn’t be overly surprised that two dinosaurs ended up leading England because the most notable thing about all of these men is that they continually overlap jobs.

Allardyce and Pardew have both managed Newcastle, West Ham, and Crystal Palace, with Hodgson assuming the latter role this season. David Moyes is tasked with steering West Ham away from the bottom three this season but he was the Everton manager for 12 years, where Allardyce now finds himself in charge.

And what happens when a dynamic club does appoint a forward thinking, young British manager?

Well, Paul Clement comes along and completely blows the arse out of the argument that you’re trying to make in this week’s column. But fear not, because the pterodactyl overhead circling the wreckage is Tony Pulis (60 next month), the former West Brom manager of course, where Roy Hodgson was once at the helm and where Alan Pardew is now charged with steadying the ship.

And that is the point. That is why these men exist in the game. That is why they keep getting jobs. They have no interest in building a club of substance, blooding young talent, even leaving a legacy. They will all fail in time but they will very likely succeed in initially returning a failing a club to its average best. For a season, at least.

And so many young British would-be managers go into punditry and critique the work of men twice as old as themselves. It is completely the wrong way around. But the dynamic won’t change.

That £1bn a year in broadcast rights is divided up every season amongst the Premier League’s 20 member clubs. And the owners need to treat every penny of their cut as if it were a manhole cover in their pockets. It can be a long way back to the promised land if a club loses its balance.

As long as there are clubs that need to place financial stability over the glory of winning, then we will continue to have managers that substitute exciting football for an effective side that accumulates points where it can. And it’s hard to argue with that — after all, we don’t want a succession of bankrupt clubs.

Even so, these managers can’t go on forever. But what will happen when they finally hang up their trench coats? Cresswell says it’s all too obvious what the future will look like.

“Chris Wilder has achieved three promotions in three seasons with Northampton Town and Sheffield United and his United side sit in the promotion places of the Championship this season. I don’t think that I have ever heard his name linked with a Premier League job.

“Foreign managers are getting a chance in the top leagues in their home nation at an early age and the Premier League will take them at a certain moment. It is easier to take a foreign manager that has achieved something in La Liga or Ligue Un or the Bundesliga than it is to appoint a British manager that has achieved something in England but at a lower level.”

That will put an end to the great dinosaur of British management. But as Cresswell points out, ‘while that is a good thing, it is also an unmitigated disaster too’.