Short, practical pieces for anyone coaching kids: what to do on Tuesday, what to say on Saturday and what to stop worrying about entirely.
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.
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.
You are not fighting for attention at minute forty. You lost it at minute three, standing in the middle of a field with a bag of cones and twelve bored children.
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.
The feedback sandwich is a management technique for adults, and children see straight through it. Four things that work better, and one that undoes everything.
A scout liked your winger and suddenly there are trial letters and big feelings. What academy interest really means, the questions parents forget to ask, and how to protect the kid...
Fifteen minutes in, nobody is listening, the exercise is not working and you can feel the evening slipping. Every coach has been there. Here is the recovery.
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.
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