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Session plan of the Week

GRF Admin 18/01/2016

Here’s a great session to get your team to focus on possession. Great for multiple formations and ideal for possession or counter attack training. Top tips Make sure your possession players are vocal and mobile.

FA Launches Grassroots pitch audit….

GRF Admin 15/01/2016

FA launches grassroots pitch audit The FA has launched a major audit of grassroots football facilities in conjunction with County FAs across England. Time to see real investment into facilities. A call has gone out to the 21,000 club administrators across FA-affiliated…

Time to think again about what we give the kids to drink…….

GRF Admin 14/01/2016

If I gave a child this level of sugar on breakfast cereal I would expect to be challenged on the grounds that it was completely ridiculous and a health risk!!! So why is there so much sugar in children’s drinks!!!! Ok on…

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

GRF Admin 13/01/2016

If only he knew what she heard….. It’s a hard life…… Of a Coaches wife 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…

Session plan of the week. Mixing warm up and training (ideal for cold nights)

GRF Admin 13/01/2016

Happy new year guys and welcome to 2016, today we have a great session plan that has so many areas of progression it really is limitless. This can involve your full squad and can be used as a warm up or…

Good luck in your fundraising efforts guys #FrameFooty

GRF Admin 12/01/2016

Great to hear the spirit of Grassroots is alive and kicking, a real fundraising mountain to climb to help grow frame football and assist in the supply of specialist equipment. Over to Michelle of Beeston Park Rangers; We are a group of…

Grassroots Survey Results………

GRF Admin 10/01/2016

The results of our Grassroots survey have been overwhelming. At Grassroots we held a survey about missed games due to the British winter weather. With some teams having not kicked a ball for 9 weeks due to waterlogged pitches etc. We…

Grassroots survey results for this weekend…..78% of Games called OFF!!!!

GRF Admin 09/01/2016

Grassroots survey 78% of Games OFF. We did a survey yesterday on Twitter regarding games called off due to weather this weekend. Worryingly out of everyone that entered these were the results. 78% of Games were OFF 22% of Games were ON…

Clydesdale FC step in to save Hamilton and District Primary Schools’ Football Association from closure

GRF Admin 06/01/2016

Clydesdale FC step in to save Hamilton and District Primary Schools’ Football Association from closure Sandra Cushnie thought it was a joke when a kids’ football club stepped in to save her primary schools’ league, but says the 11th-hour drama is a…

Emergency Football Relief Fund Expands to More Areas……

GRF Admin 04/01/2016

The Football Foundation has expanded its Emergency Football Relief Fund in response to the recent storms affecting the North of England. The Fund will now include the regions covered by the Manchester County FA, Liverpool County FA, Cheshire County FA and the…

Dion Dublin gets behind FA People’s Cup

GRF Admin 04/01/2016

Dion gets behind FA People’s Cup Dion Dublin has added his weight of support to the FA People’s Cup. The former Norwich, Cambridge, Manchester United, Villa and England footballer turned TV presenter took to the airwaves in an ambassadorial role to…

How many more times will pitches be destroyed?????

GRF Admin 02/01/2016

Timsbury Athletics pitch destroyed at 5am yesterday morning by what looks like quad/motorbike tracks. You fight the weather to keep games on them get a low blow like this Really really annoys me every time I see images like this. Why…