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Oh Great! It’s Sunday! A Grassroots Substitutes Parents’ Matchday

GRF Admin 10/03/2020

Oh Great! It’s Sunday! A Grassroots Substitutes Parent It’s Sunday, the day my son has been waiting for all week. It’s football day. For me it can be the worst day of the week, from waking up to an excited child to…

ENGLAND CAPTAINS HOUGHTON AND KANE LAUNCH THE FA’s PLEDGE OF POSITIVITY

GRF Admin 28/02/2020

The Football Association [The FA] has today launched the ‘Pledge of Positivity’ which asks parents and spectators involved in under-18s grassroots football to commit to creating a more positive environment at matches across the country. A recent survey conducted by The…

“Its easy to pick a team, isnt it?”

GRF Admin 06/02/2020

Have you ever wondered how hard it is to pick a team? They’re only 5 who can play on the pitch at any one time and I’ve got 9 to pick from, I want to put them all on! This is so…

‘Why do I only come on if we’re winning by loads or losing by loads?’

GRF Admin 18/11/2019

So why did I want to be a football coach and what did I think I would get out of it? The answer is not as simple as you might think. Actually it’s a bloody tough one to consider but I’ll try…

The FA Guide to Improving Matchday for Children

GRF Admin 18/07/2019

We can all help children enjoy football more by creating the right environment. That is why The FA has produced an easy-to-follow guide to help improve the matchday experience for younger players. From introducing codes of conduct to simply providing refreshments, the…

Engaging parents: it’s not ‘us and them’

GRF Admin 07/06/2019

FA county coach developer, Rebecca Garlick, discusses the importance of engaging parents* in the coaching process and the crucial role they can have on the development of young players. 1. Parental significance Parents are in the majority of cases, the most important…

Whose game is it anyway?

GRF Admin 04/06/2019

In many ways a simple question to answer, but one that despite what we may say as parents and sometimes as coaches, is not always backed up by the behaviours that we display on a regular basis. In the cold light of…

6 minutes !!! – My son cried when he got in the car, this can’t be right…

GRF Admin 30/04/2019

My son, who is 8 has played for his team now for a year and a half now, I accept that he has the least ability on the team but to counter this he has the most enthusiasm. The coach was very…

Join the debate everyone’s talking about. 😂 What’s better dance mum or footy mum? We have no bias here. 😉

GRF Admin 27/02/2019

The dreaded ‘playing time’ conversation

GRF Admin 26/02/2019

One of the most dreaded conversations between players, coaches, and parents involves playing time. Nobody likes it. In my workshops on conflict resolution for coaches and directors of coaching, I ask them to identify the most common types of difficult conversations and…

Be Honest, have you ever……

GRF Admin 11/02/2019

A very honest message from a parent coach, if only I had asked first….

GRF Admin 22/11/2018

So my boy finally reached the magical age of 7 last spring and all the football training, school clubs could now pay off and I could get him on a team. It turned out the local FA affiliated club were looking for…