Short, practical pieces for anyone coaching kids: what to do on Tuesday, what to say on Saturday and what to stop worrying about entirely.
Nobody has ever become a better footballer by jogging round a pitch. What to do with the first ten minutes instead, and why the ball goes out before the cones do.
Half-term, flu season, a birthday party. Every coach gets the Tuesday where five children arrive for a session planned for fourteen. Here is how to make it the best session of the month.
Wet, dark, cold and half the squad is thinking about going home. Winter sessions need a different plan, not a shorter one.
Most grassroots coaches never get a full pitch to themselves. Planning for a cramped quarter of a field is a skill, and it is mostly about geometry.
Most rondos are a warm-up with a ball in the middle. Here is how to turn the same circle into the best fifteen minutes of your session.
Four against four gives a child five times the touches of a queue-based drill and forces a decision with every one of them. What the numbers look like, and how to run them well.
You will never have their attention like you do in the first hour. Here is how to spend it, minute by minute, and the three things you should deliberately not do.
They look like coaching, they feel organised, and they are the four biggest wastes of a Tuesday evening in youth football.
Legs are tired, the league is decided, and attention is at the beach already. Why the final weeks matter more than mid-season, and session ideas that end the year the right way.
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