I’ve lost count of how many “tactical gurus” I’ve seen on YouTube using fancy digital telestrations to explain how a back four works, acting as if a defensive line is some sort of mathematical equation. They draw lines and arrows on a screen, but they never mention the sheer mental exhaustion of a centre-back trying
I remember watching a lad back in the late nineties—bright kid, plenty of pace—who spent his entire pre-season running five-mile loops around the local park. He came to the first training session looking like he could go all day, but by the time we hit the sixty-minute mark in our first friendly, he was completely
If you’ve been scouring the internet for a complete guide to starting a football club, you’ve likely been bombarded by glossy PDFs and “entrepreneurial” seminars that treat a grassroots club like you’re launching a tech startup in Silicon Valley. They’ll talk to you about “brand identity” and “scalable revenue models,” but they won’t tell you
I’ve sat through enough coaching seminars in heated halls to know that most of them are absolute rubbish. They’ll hand you a glossy folder full of colour-coded diagrams and tell you that the secret to success is a complex, multi-stage progression that requires a degree in mathematics to follow. But let me tell you something: