by GRF Admin | Mar 11, 2016 | News, Uncategorised
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...
by GRF Admin | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Uncategorised
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...
by GRF Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | News, Uncategorised
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...
by GRF Admin | Feb 19, 2016 | Coach Diary, News, Uncategorised
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...
by GRF Admin | Feb 4, 2016 | News, Uncategorised
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...
