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Artificial Enhancement: The Solution for Grass-Roots Football?

January 11th 2011

Every Saturday during the autumn, winter and spring seasons (injury preventing), I hope to be gracing the turf of various local football teams’ home grounds with the intention of playing football. As will millions of other keen amateur footballers. However, as we have seen in the last couple of months particularly, it is widely known [...]

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Fundraising

December 2nd 2010

Welcome to the forth 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. Fundraising It may not be the Premiership but running a [...]

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A Guide to Surviving Youth Football

August 31st 2010

Hi guys For those that don’t know me I am the author of “A Guide to Surviving Youth Football.” Thanks very much to the awesome creators of this website I have been given the chance to share with you a weekly serialisation of my book. The book is a warts and all book covering anything [...]

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Hard Ground Is Driving Me Nuts

August 22nd 2010

This hard ground in England at the moment is not great for football. I Played today on a pitch that more closely resembled concrete than grass. Looked a bit like the picture above but without the sea (picture courtesy of monkeypainter). It rained about an hour after the game but unless we get some real rain [...]

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Welcome to Soccer On The Brain (SOTB)

August 17th 2010

Well hello there, and welcome to the Soccer On The Brain (SOTB) blog. The best ever blog for football players. SOTB is written by those of us actively involved in Grassroots Football and anyone can contribute. Get involved in the comments if you want join in the discussion, or if you want to add an [...]

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Write For Us

August 15th 2010

Write about your thoughts from the weekend, your injuries, training, the bad ref you had, the problems faced by your club, or even give us some insight into your views on the professional world of football. If you have an article, or an idea for an article email it to sotb (at) bluefields (dot) com [...]

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