Agree. The often repeated cliche about no competitive sport is rubbish, well at least here in Sussex. At Junior school my daughter was competing against other schools at netball, cricket, athletics, football etc. As for selling off sports grounds, I be interested to see where the last school...
I doubt neither he nor Blair could be considered as the 'architect' for this success. The person that advised that using lottery funding would be a good idea is the real catalyst for the change. I very much doubt that Major was sitting at No.10 and came up with the idea himself!