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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 […]
Read More… from Dear parents / spectators / family / whoever doesn’t VOLUNTEER!!!!
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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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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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 […]
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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!!!
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…..