by GRF Admin | Sep 10, 2025 | Featured, headline news, Latest News, News
We’ve all seen the headlines: 15-0, 19-1, even 27-0. On paper, they look like dominant victories. But in grassroots and youth football, one question matters more than the scoreline: who actually benefits from a result like that? At this level, football should be about...
by GRF Admin | Sep 9, 2025 | Coaching, Featured, headline news, Latest News, News
“Anyone who tells you they can spot a professional player at five years old is basically lying,” says former Talent ID manager Nick Levett, an expert in the eight to eleven age group. Yet, across English football, professional clubs are scouting children as young as...
by GRF Admin | Jul 10, 2025 | headline news, Latest News, News
Under-10s players were left heartbroken after the team’s coach used money raised for a trip to Spain to fund a gambling habit. A trusted junior football coach has left families devastated after squandering thousands of pounds meant to send a children’s football team...
by GRF Admin | May 1, 2025 | Featured, headline news, News
FA Statement as follows; As the governing body of the national sport, our role is to make football accessible to as many people as possible, operating within the law and international football policy defined by UEFA and FIFA. The FA current policy, which allows...
by GRF Admin | Apr 24, 2025 | headline news, Latest News, News
North Yorkshire Football Match Goes Down the Pan After Referee Finds Poo in Shoe In one of the strangest match abandonments the beautiful game has ever seen, a North Yorkshire football fixture was flushed down the drain at half-time after the referee found a steaming...
by GRF Admin | Apr 18, 2025 | headline news, News
The incident took place at an under-14s match and one of the clubs has said it is ‘dealing with the matter internally’ A teenage referee was allegedly assaulted by a parent at a youth football match in Rhondda Cynon Taf. South Wales Police have...
