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It felt like watching Neville and Carragher discussing a Premier league game…….

Posted on 25 January 2016 (6 April 2023)

It felt like watching Neville and Carragher discussing a Premier league game……. Yes that’s right. On my travels yesterday I was invited to a training session in Leeds to observe the kids, what I observed were a great bunch of coaches with excellent rapport and a healthy team-coach relationship. The coaches explained to me that […]

Where have all the pub teams gone??

Posted on 20 January 2016 (6 April 2023)

As we came to the end of the 2014-15 season, the Ormskirk & District Sunday League are already looking ahead to the new season and have started their recruitment drive for new team. As part of this, they are asking the questions – Where have all the pub teams gone? At around the same time, […]

Is the gap to big now that Grassroots needs to govern itself??

Posted on 19 January 2016 (6 April 2023)

We ask the question,is the premier league so far removed from grassroots football with an agenda steeped in money and greed. At times it appears like 2 separate sports. Never in history has this level of investment been ploughed into football, with record breaking deals being signed with sponsors and TV rights but the money […]

SPECIAL ENTRY. Diary of a Coaches Spouse. If he knew what she heard…….

Posted on 13 January 2016 (6 April 2023)

If only coach knew what she heard….. It’s a hard life…… Of a Coaches spouse Many nights are spent without her husband by her side, He’s game planning, tutoring, or giving a kid a ride, He is a father figure to quite a few, They look up to him to see what they should do, […]

How much do you get paid????

Posted on 5 January 2016

How much do you get paid?? I’m not sure you will post this but will send anyway. I am the girls co-ordinator for X Girls football club, I have been in this position for 3 seasons now, I get asked how much I get paid, as all the grass roots coaches know we do this […]

Crisis meetings at U8s!!!

Posted on 20 December 2015

I honestly thought a crisis is what’s happening in Syria or the Boxing Day tsnami not u8s football!!! So this week the parents of my team decided we needed a crisis meeting because we have lost 3 of the first 7 games of the winter league. Some people need to get a grip and have […]

Play of the week, defending as a team.

Posted on 15 December 2015

Here’s a great session that you will get a lot from, 3 zones are required for this one set out as seen below. Attackers on both ends try to split the defenders and look to pass to opposite end. Movement needs to be high from all involved but important for defenders to keep there […]

Diary entry – I’m no Alex Ferguson I’m still learning myself

Posted on 13 December 2015

I have recently come into managing an under 7’s team through my own child playing for the team.im enjoying it but learning as I go along so am seeking some advice. I was wondering what everyone does training wise? We train one evening a week indoors (in a school sports hall) then the match […]

Pensioner offers his life savings to his local club to save them from the brink. This is what Grassroots Football is built upon. Unsung heroes like Terry.

Posted on 11 December 2015 (6 April 2023)

ONE of the oldest groundsmen in the country has offered his savings to save his beloved football club from threat of closure. Terry Henderson, 76, who volunteers at Hallen FC, has offered to pay towards the £20,000 in rent needed for the club to play at its Moorhouse Lane ground in Bristol for another year. […]

Quote from a parent “Where’s all the money gone”

Posted on 23 November 2015 (9 March 2023)

I sent a text out midweek about planning a Christmas party for the team and their brothers/sisters, nothing fancy just a small function, maybe a Dj, small buffet, maybe medals and a trophy each to celebrate Christmas etc This was for my u7s team, I have 6 players with subs of £2 per week total […]

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