Other Football Stuff
25 Mar 2011
FA Youth Module Awards
The Football Association have rolled out three new qualifications. I am often asked what they are about and why should coaches take them, so we have put together some information on them and provided links for you to find out more.
22 Mar 2011
FA launches new UEFA B Licence
For Football coaches, the qualification pathway is FA Level 1, FA Level 2, FA Level 3 (UEFA B) and FA level 4 (UEFA A). The Football Association have now launched a new UEFA B License, so for those football coaches who are interested in what it is about, we have put together key information on this new qualification
03 Jun 2010
Alternative to Penalty shoot outs
With the World Cup about to start, we the fans and the teams will be faced with the lottery of penalty shoot outs. How many times have we seen inferior teams defending for their lives to hang on and try to get to a penalty shoot out? Seeing it as their best chance of winning. The result? Not always does the better team progress through the competition and the competition is somewhat diminished. As an England fan, I am of course biased, because we have suffered so often from defeat in a game we should have won, because we have lost the penalty shoot out.
02 Jun 2010
Practical Jokes in Football
Having read an article over the weekend about how Steve Gerrard’s England team mates trashed his room as a practical joke when he made his England debut, it bought to mind when one of my Sheffield United team mates tried to hypnotise me! The scene was a Sheffield United Christmas party, back in 1983. We were all in a packed pub in Sheffield, enjoying a few drinks, I was dressed in a very fashionable, trendy, white shirt and black linen trousers, very much the Miami Vice look of the time.
02 Jun 2010
Why is the English game and players considered technically inferior to many other countries?
Imagine a situation where students go to school and there aren’t enough schools, classrooms, facilities and a lack of qualified teachers who can motivate, inspire and teach the students. Would it come as any surprise that the whole education system would suffer and that students would fail to gain an adequate education and that the country as a whole would suffer.
02 Jun 2010
Are Diving Football Players Cheats ?
I’m sure for many fans the sight of players blatantly diving, rolling around and generally play acting as well as running up to referees brandishing imaginary cards to try and get fellow professionals sent off is nauseating. It also sets such a bad example for all the young players who play the game. It is something the “beautiful game” should be will rid of.
01 Jun 2010
Football Technology and Referees
There is an increasing clamour for technology to have a greater involvement in decisions in football. Cameras on the goal, to check if the ball has crossed the line for example. In my view, football in this country sells and is successful around the World because it is a fast moving, dynamic, exciting game. It also relies on controversy to sell the game. The experts on T.V, the newspapers and media all feed and sell their products on the controversy that the fast moving game of professional football provides. The decisions the poor referees have to make in a split second are endlessly debated by the fans after the game, in pubs, in phone ins. Slow motions relays are dissected, analysed and opinions given..Sometimes, even with the help of these slow motion replays, they get it wrong. This debate and controversy is the life blood of the game. So let’s leave it to the referees and linesman to be human, make mistakes, get it right and wrong and continue to enjoy the controversy that this creates.
