“John!” the loud cry would come from either my mother or father; it’s time for bed and school’s tomorrow. Thousands of hours were taken up in the street, school playground and wartime debris, for these places were the learning grounds of the footballers of the past. These ‘mini Wembley’s’ provided competitive, small-sided games of football […]
Attractive and effective football requires highly talented players to be able to play it. As players of this type are rare today from amongst our ‘home-grown’ players, mediocrity of performance from both individuals and subsequently their teams is too easily accepted by our Press and public alike. Our reliance on simple skills aligned to simple tactics to […]
Be honest, when coaching, when was the last time you taught and practiced tackling for the ball in a training session? The art of winning the ball cleanly in a ‘solid’ tackle without a player ending up on his backside is mainly a vision of the past. From frontal, sides or behind, tackling for the […]
What does Dribbling represent to you? Is it the use of nimble footwork — is it the ‘bogus’ use of feints with various parts of the body – or is it running with the ball followed by changes of direction…….. or is it something else? All of the aforementioned can be described as dribbling but […]
