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Where have all the parents gone who just turn up, watch their kid play and as long as they enjoy it everything is good. These days it’s like the parents want to be sporting directors, they want to coach (but not be the coach), pick the team, the formation, the tactics, and run the club […]
Read More… from A final message before this coach walks away from the game.
How does having an ex-Premier League manager attend your club training session? The mystery ex-Premier League manager will come to your session and can do a session with the players and a live Q&A with the players/coaches. Your team or club must be available on the 30th of November 2022. This great competition is powered […]
Read More… from Win your club a VIP session with a former Premier League Manager
Transforming communities through the power of football is the ambitious aim of a new two-year Cics Cymru community programme devised by the Premier League, Welsh Government and FAW Trust. The programme sets out to inspire a new generation across Wales with a range of opportunities and engaging activities. Cics Cymru will build upon the success of […]
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In a devastating blow to junior football and homegrown pathways into the professional game, Premier league club Huddersfield Town scrap all academy teams from U7s – U16s. A huge blow and one we hope doesn’t set a precedent to other professional clubs, please see extracts from a club statement from their website…. Huddersfield Town has […]
Read More… from Premier League side Huddersfield scrap all academy teams U7s-U16s
It’s difficult now in 2016 to remember a time when there was no Premier league, kids of today will assume it has always been this way, I can assure you that I for one am unfortunately old enough to remember when the whole league system was united and money was shared. So we look back […]
Read More… from FOOTBALL WAS NEITHER STARTED IN 1992 NOR INVENTED BY THE PREMIER LEAGUE.
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 […]
Read More… from Are they analysing a grassroots or premier league game?
The headline says it all. What has happened to our game? We see grassroots teams collapsing and facilities in a complete state of disrepair in the Grassroots world (the real world) Then at the other end of the game (fantasy land) we hear of wide scale corruption and greed at the very top of the […]
Read More… from While Grassroots dies of poverty, the pro game gorges on greed.
The answer might not immediately appear to obvious, so let’s look at why we think it may benefit grassroots. Since the billionaire club known as the Premier league was taken over by corporate owners wanting instant overnight commercial and footballing success the landscape began to change. Historically the successful teams grew and developed there own […]
Read More… from Could the success of Leicester City benefit Grassroots Football???
