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Weathering the footy storms…

January 30th 2012

Winter freeze-out Don’t get me wrong, I like Winter. There’s loads of time off work, office parties, makeshift Nordic bars popping up in pedestrianised parts of town, etc. But there’s one thing missing… …and that’s a good old game of honest-to-goodness, 11-a-side, grass-roots, amateur football. It’s boring not playing a game of football. And when [...]

Ref Calm Down

Is the ref really a w*****?

December 8th 2011

NB All refs, images of whom we have trawled from the internet, are not, by virtue of being included in this article, in fact w****** They may be so in their own right, or could equally be thoroughly nice chaps and amazing referees, we’ll never know – DB Edit You’re lying if you say you’ve [...]

Tactics Board

Trust me, the wins do come (eventually!)…

November 3rd 2011

I almost gave up. After just 4 league games as an amateur football player-manager I almost chucked it in. Prior to the 4 league defeats, there was also a 10-0 friendly thrashing. And chucked in the middle of all this was a local Memorial Cup, where the only win we had was a default charity [...]

Ruddy Faced and angry

Football management, for dummies?

October 20th 2011

This article was originally posted on http://stevedelporter.blogspot.com/  A while ago (for someone born with the 1980s on the horizon) a sheepskin coat, shades and a borderline criminal past were pre-requisites for ‘pucker’ top-tier football management material. Not so nowadays… Personality Issues Depending on what side of the fence you’re on, there are either no personalities in [...]

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