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 [...]
November 29th 2011
After last week focusing on ex Chelsea DM dynamo Claude Makelele, I’ll now move on to two of the greatest teams in modern football. There is no doubt that both the Spain national side, and Barcelona FC are incredibly good attacking sides, they both have one key, defensive midfielder, who plays a massively important role [...]
November 24th 2011
With the football season nearing a third of the way through, it’s likely you’re able to judge how good your team is and how well you think the team will do come the end of the season. Unfortunately, for some teams the prospect of winning trophies is the last thing on their minds, enduring thrashings [...]
November 18th 2011
In this three part mini series, I’ll be paying some attention to the often overlooked role of the holding midfielder and championing the importance of the DM in the forming of a successful side. This is for all those unsung heroes, the quiet men of football. Where is the Love? Since the FIFA World Player [...]
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 [...]
October 26th 2011
A New Idea for Grassroots Declare Your Interest In Blue Laces – Receive an Info Email Here Over the past few weeks, while our code-monkey in chief has been putting the finishing touches on the Bluefields.com site, we’ve come up with a new idea which we hope you’re all going to like. It’s called Blue [...]
May 13th 2011
Welcome to the seventeenth installment of a small series of serialisations of my book “A Guide to Surviving Youth Football” If you like what you see and want to read more please do go and purchase a copy of the book by going to amazon. Getting Emotional As a coach you are going to get [...]
April 15th 2011
Today Chelsea released news that they will again be raising the prices of some tickets for next season. On their own the price hikes aren’t too intriguing, but it’s reflective of an industry that seems to have no problems in relentlessly boosting ticket prices in order to balance the books, because of outrageous spending from [...]
April 13th 2011
Welcome to the sixteenth installment of a small series of serialisations of my book “A Guide to Surviving Youth Football” If you like what you see and want to read more please do go and purchase a copy of the book by going to amazon. Counsellor, Childminder, Mentor, Friend and Parent all Rolled in to [...]
March 29th 2011
Welcome to the fifteenth installment of a small series of serialisations of my book “A Guide to Surviving Youth Football” If you like what you see and want to read more please do go and purchase a copy of the book by going to amazon. Coaching Family Members In TV there is a rule to [...]
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