by GRF Admin | Oct 12, 2021 | Coaching, Featured, News, Parents
Oh Great! It’s Sunday! A Grassroots Substitutes Parent It’s Sunday, the day my son has been waiting for all week. It’s football day. For me it can be the worst day of the week, from waking up to an excited child to going watching all the excitement ebb away as his...
by GRF Admin | Sep 14, 2021 | Featured, Footy Mums, News, Parents
We’ve all been there – on the sidelines of the football pitch while the referee has to stop match play (again) while little Johnny has to stop and tie up his boot laces. It’s frustrating for the coaches, refs, parents and the kids too. It was exactly this issue that...
by GRF Admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Coaching, Featured, Footy Mums, Health, News
Severs disease is the most common issue I have seen recently with children. The majority of them currently play football extensively! It’s also called calcaneal apophysitis and its not really a disease, but an over use injury where by the growth plate in the heel can...
by GRF Admin | Jun 24, 2021 | Footy Mums, News, Parents
So we are three seasons into our grassroots journey, and loving every minute. There are a few things we wish we had known from the start which I wanted to pass on to parents starting their grassroots journey….. Always keep a spare bottle of water in the car....
by GRF Admin | Jun 15, 2021 | News
Stephen Hunt, a disability football coach for over 20 years from Merseyside, is the Nationwide Building Society Mutual Respect Award for May 2021. ‘Ste’, who has Spina Bifida, is 50 years old and a player and coach for FC PHAB in Liverpool. Over the last two decades,...
by GRF Admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Coaching, Featured, News
“Anyone who tells you they can spot a professional player at five years old is basically lying,” says former talent ID manager Nick Levett, an expert in the eight to 11-year-old age group. Scouting football players as young as five, persuading an...
