Short, practical pieces for anyone coaching kids: what to do on Tuesday, what to say on Saturday and what to stop worrying about entirely.
Player of the Year sounds harmless until you watch the faces of the kids who never win anything. How to run an awards evening that celebrates a whole squad honestly.
That nervous teenager refereeing your under-10s is doing their first ever match. Why young officials quit in droves, and what one coach and one sideline can do about it.
Usually it arrives second-hand, through a parent, in a message on a Tuesday afternoon. What happens in the next few days decides whether they play football at seventeen.
Most teams are handed over with a shrug and a squad list. Two hours of work in June saves the next coach - and the children - an entire autumn.
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