by GRF Admin | Mar 8, 2018 | News
It takes a certain amount of dedication to get out of bed on a cold and rainy weekend morning to kick a ball around a waterlogged pitch. Faced with typical grassroots conditions, football is often anything but a beautiful game, so what keeps players coming back week...
by GRF Admin | Feb 12, 2018 | News
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AROUND U6S PLAYING FOOTBALL. After being made aware of a number of posts on social media, we believe it is a good time to remind everyone about the rule concerning the youngest age that children can play in organised matches. The FA rule on this...
by GRF Admin | Nov 23, 2017 | Health, News
The Football Association and the Professional Footballers’ Association have appointed Dr William Stewart and colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the Hampden Sports Clinic to lead an independent research study into the incidence of degenerative neurocognitive...
by GRF Admin | Nov 1, 2017 | News
The four football associations of the home nations (The FA, FA Wales, Scottish FA and Irish FA) welcome the new clarification on Law 4, issued on 26 September 2017 by The International Football Association Board (The IFAB), in close cooperation and agreement with...
by GRF Admin | Oct 17, 2017 | News
“When are we having a game?” – I’d be willing to bet that this is the question that coaches up and down the country probably get asked most often. Why is this? Don’t these kids realise how much time and effort we’ve put into researching and planning this nice,...
