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The FA has invited grassroots leagues at Step 7 and below of the National League System to trial Temporary Dismissals (more commonly known as ‘sin bins’) during their fixtures next season. Following the decision of IFAB earlier this year to permit National Associations the ability to implement changes in rules at grassroots level of the […]
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SECONDHAND SMOKE A BAD DEAL FOR SPORTY KIDS SPORT and Smoke Don’t Mix – that’s the message of a new campaign to raise awareness of the effects of second-hand smoke on children. Smokers are being urged not to light up where children could be exposed, whether it’s on the touchline at a football match or […]
A record 130,000 girls and women have taken part in FA Girls’ Football Week in 2016. More than 80,000 people have taken part in this week’s activity, almost four times the original target, while 50,000 people participated in April’s Girls’ Football Week. The total was announced at an event in Birmingham, organised by Aston University and Walsall […]
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The parents of boys at the Ajax academy De Toekomst in Amsterdam received letters last week to reassure them that from now on, not only would their children not be playing on any of the club’s 3G pitches with rubber crumb infill, but those pitches were being removed. It was a swift response to the […]
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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 […]
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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” […]
It’s football day and Dad wakes me up,“Come on,” he says, “lets win this cup!” I open my eyes and Dad’s standing there beaming, These are the days of which he’s been dreaming! I get my kit on and get in the car, My Dad keeps calling me his little star. With one eye on […]
It felt like watching Neville and Carragher discussing a Premier league game……. Yes that’s right. On my travels yesterday I was invited to a training session in Leeds to observe the kids, what I observed were a great bunch of coaches with excellent rapport and a healthy team-coach relationship. The coaches explained to me that […]
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