Coaching Notes
How to Give a Half Time Team Talk That Actually Lands
You are 1-0 down, the players are walking off with their heads low, and you have roughly 12 minutes before the referee wants...
Ask ten supporters why their club is called what it is and you will often get ten slightly different stories, some of them invented in a pub in the 1990s.
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Coaching Notes
You are 1-0 down, the players are walking off with their heads low, and you have roughly 12 minutes before the referee wants...
Youth Football
Picture a Saturday at 9:15. Fourteen under 10s are jogging two slow laps of the pitch, half of them chatting, three of them...
Fan Culture
Eleven weeks, 34 volunteers, 410 square metres of fabric and one very nervous phone call to the club's safety officer.
Player Development
A 1.72 metre centre-back once told me he had stopped going for headers against big strikers because "there's no point".
Club Heritage
Ask ten supporters when their club was founded and you will often get three different years.
Coaching Notes
Most amateur sides pick a captain in about ninety seconds.
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Three writers who come at football from different angles: one breaks down match tactics and substitutions, one writes about player and youth development from time spent on training grounds, and one covers fan culture and club history. Every article carries a byline, and every byline links to everything else that person has written.