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Imagine you’re undertaking a fairly difficult task: assembling a piece of furniture with hieroglyphic instructions, filling out an Inland Revenue Tax Return on Jan 30th or standing on the highest rungs of a ladder painting the crown moulding in your living room with 14-foot ceilings. Think it would help if someone yelled at you during […]
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We have this question sent in on a weekly basis, so this time we thought we woukd run a Grassroots survey to see what the general opinion out there is. We ran the Grassroots poll on our Twitter account @FootballGrf and simply asked the following…. Should smoking be banned on the sidelines at Grassroots games??? […]
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Ok, I’m not one to complain, but I feel I have to vent about an incident that happened 2 weeks ago. Every week I get to training about 30 minutes early to set up and stay back about 20 minutes to pack away. 2 weeks ago it was really wet when I set up, the […]
Read More… from Thanks for leaving me to put everything away in the hail guys!!!
This has been a very hot topic of late so today we asked the FA direct about the subject. The following is a statement from an FA spokesperson. “The numerous scientific studies conducted by government agencies around the world, and undertaken by independent experts have all validated the human health and environmental safety of […]
Read More… from Breaking News!!! Statement from the FA regarding 3G pitches.
Before we discuss what qualities and skill sets that make for a good coach, we need to first acknowledge how very difficult this profession of coaching really is. Coaching is sometimes a thankless, frustrating “no-win” kind of activity. It’s most often done in a public fishbowl. In other words, if you coach, then you are […]
Letter to the Professional game. This is an open letter to All pro Players All pro Coaches/Managers All pro Owners/Shareholders Grassroots invites you to any Grassroots game/league/club over the next 2 weeks (or any time). In your area there are 100s of clubs/games every week. To the players, be an inspiration to the kids, kick […]
Read More… from Dear Professional Game, please can you help Grassroots.
Well another Saturday goes by and another game sees my team improve again. Every week I see a pass or a move we couldn’t do the previous week, this a coach makes me feel proud. Small improvements every week is all I can ask for, now to the game and the most monumental over reaction […]
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???
Please help me settle an argument, was I right to say this? Last week after training my u8s we were all sat down on the ground and one of the players asked me “coach when we get older and are in the premier league, will we get a stadium or just play on the fields” […]
Is it still a Young Man’s game? Densely populated areas that now have fewer leagues and even less teams to represent them are on the increase. Leagues are having to merge or downsize just to continue and this doesn’t necessarily help matters. The over-the-hill mob have now taken precedence over the open-age players, with their […]
Read More… from Worrying trend….18-25 year olds, the game needs you back…..
