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I’m a coach and I love training the kids, seeing them smile, playing a game they love. .. week after week standing smart and proud in their kits .. preparing themselves ready for the game a head. . I enjoy arranging events where they can have fun and team build, bonding and creating friendships, memories […]
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Story courtesy of the Liverpool Echo. The family of a brave six-year-old Everton fan who defied the odds after he was born with a rare genetic disorder have started a campaign to get him to Goodison Park. Daire Flannagan’s parents were told by doctors that their son would not survive 48 hours after birth after […]
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Is the structure of grassroots football in England helping us to produce world class players, game changers, intelligent players who are comfortable in possession of the ball when under pressure? On the evidence of the past 20 years I have concluded that we are miles behind other many other nations despite our huge […]
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FA Chief Executive Martin Glenn has “commended the commitment” by London Mayor, Boris Johnson to get the capital behind The FA’s nationwide plan to create a network of grassroots football hubs across major cities. The hub programme is one of the findings of the FA Chairman Greg Dyke’s Independent Commission which revealed there was a […]
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The visit of Nick Robinson, who is FA Rules & Sanctions Committee Chairman, to Sporting 87 in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday morning coincided with the second Silent Weekend to take place in the county. Around 500 teams took part in the event which puts an emphasis on letting the players play and creating a […]
Read More… from Ssshhhh!!!! Silent weekend hailed by top FA figure
The FA has launched an £8 million commitment to improve natural turf (grass) football pitches across the country. Over four years, The FA will implement the Pitch Improvement Programme (PIP) which will deliver improvements to more than 2,000 pitches – a central pillar of the organisation’s 2015-19 Strategy for Participation and Development. PIP will provide […]
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There are some things in football that I love: Seeing the kids develop as players, developing friendships. Watching them enjoying trainings sessions we have put on. Seeing them win, lose or draw together. As a team. There are some things in football that I don’t love quite so much: Hearing or seeing adults shout […]
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Match Day!!!! 07:00- rise and shine..immediately switch on iron before even boiling the kettle.. 07:03 “Mummmmmmm is it time for training yet?” “No lads..we’ve 4 hours yet!” 07:04-put the kettle on for my other half (and goalkeeper coach) 07:05-“Mummmmmmm is it nearly time?” “No lads there’s STILL 4 hours to go!” 07:10-brew time…quick talk over […]
Days after the Chairman on the Surrey Youth league made claims of violence getting of control at Junior football matches we have been made aware of an alleged incident from Leicester on Sunday. The Leicester Mercury are reporting as follows…. A junior football match was abandoned when one team’s players allegedly launched an attack on […]
Read More… from All hell breaks out a junior football match….
I’M A VOLUNTEER DIDN’T YOU KNOW !!!!! I am a coach and I always try, Sometimes I get it wrong, I attend extra learning and i research all night long. I’m also a parent and a worker providing for my home, My children have to share me, But never once do they moan. Never think […]
