Coaching Notes
How a Pre-Season Really Shapes the First Ten League Games
A rough pre-season rarely announces itself with a bad result early on, since preseason friendlies are notoriously unreliable...
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Everything we have published, newest first. Tactics breakdowns, coaching notes, and the occasional disagreement with advice that sounds right but does not hold up on matchday.
Coaching Notes
A rough pre-season rarely announces itself with a bad result early on, since preseason friendlies are notoriously unreliable...
Youth Football
I tracked ball touches for a group of nine year olds once, purely out of curiosity, comparing a full eleven a side match...
Youth Football
Parents at the side of a youth match almost always ask me about the same player, the one who just scored twice and looks...
Fan Culture
I once assumed the fiercest rivalry I grew up following started with some legendary match, a controversial refereeing decision,...
Fan Culture
My grandfather used to say you could tell how a match was going without watching a single minute of it, just by standing...
Player Development
A talented sixteen year old I coached could do almost anything with his stronger foot and almost nothing reliable with the...