Coaching Notes
Winter Football Training Plan When Pitches Close
Every November the same thing happens: the council closes the grass pitches after one wet weekend, your Tuesday session gets...
You love football, your own club's fixtures leave half your weekends empty, and you keep hearing people talk about the "92" or their hundredth ground.
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Coaching Notes
Every November the same thing happens: the council closes the grass pitches after one wet weekend, your Tuesday session gets...
Club Heritage
Ask supporters why their club plays in a certain shade and most will give you a story that sounds certain and turns out to be...
Club Heritage
Ask ten supporters why their club is called what it is and you will often get ten slightly different stories, some of them...
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.
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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.