Highlighting the good and bad of grassroots football
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Can parents pretending to be elite 6 year old ballers still carry on or not?
Confusing times
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s.
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Secret grassroots coach retweeted
Jun 14
Im seeing people putting on football sessions saying ELITE OR CAT 1/2 LADS .
Then another session grassroots .
Trust me there are grassroots lads just as good as Cat 1/2 lads just might not be as athletic
Don't be too selective give players a chance to mix it up TOGETHER .
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Remember years ago as kids, very rare a player left his team or moved schools.
Happens a lot now, why is this?
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Secret grassroots coach retweeted
What is it with some youth ‘coaches’ some kids that can’t be older than 7 doing press ups and sit ups before doing laps 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ alright though as long as those coaches can play 2 touch
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Coaches that ask for high level players should be high level coaches
Agree?
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At sessions why do the parents of the kids that misbehave just stand there?
Are they numb?
Just can’t be bothered to parent?
Need a rest?
Either way they need to drag their kid off the pitch and explain they are spoiling training for everyone else
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Correct
It’s the same in grassroots football
Kid misbehaves
Not his fault, must be the fault of other kids or the coach.
Zero accountability
Too many parents want to be their kids best mate now
I increasingly find that a lot of parents do more complaining about schools than supporting schools or holding their own child to account.
This could be anecdotal observations over the last 10 years but it feels like an ever increasing pattern.
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And signed up to a development centre
Jun 7
A man was discovered with almost 90% of his brain mass missing, yet living an almost normal life
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Gillingham away end
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Good god
Just seen a session described as
‘Semi pro ballers’
8 lads
1 plays semi pro, step 6
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State of this
Years ago talking like this in the pub you would get a punch
Now you get clicks
Jun 5
“Pep left as a failure!”
Angry Ginge joins The Wayne Rooney Show and he doesn’t hold back… 🥲
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You lot who paid for these silly trials
You all excited today to get the email saying they’ll keep an eye on you?
Bank balance took a hit
Should’ve gone to Alton Towers for the day
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Why are some young lads pretending they are semi pro players?
Very odd behaviour
We’ve a lad telling us he’s step 8
Turns out he’s been training with a Saturday team who are struggling for players, has to pay subs
Step 8? Just making it up now
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Secret grassroots coach retweeted
The only real conclusion we can draw from the fact that 85% of the /England) squad signed for academies at the age of 8 is that 8 is the earliest age you can register for an academy. Correlation is not causation.
Brilliantly written Nick Cox TD Everton
linkedin.com/pulse/takes-vil…
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Imagine coming over from another country to do one of these trial events, all that travelling, all that cash, all those dreams and you end up getting a trial for Watford Gap service station 7 a side team
How do these fellas keep straight faces
#grassroots
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When you’ve finished a football college program and ask to trial at step 2 and above clubs 👍🏼
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See the new thing now is lads who don’t play semi pro are saying they are semi pro
Odd behaviour
Claiming they were at certain clubs when really they walked past the club shop when they were 8.
The liesssssss
#football
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Absolute state of this
Saw a big unit from Wigan sink 12 wkds at a kids tournament while smoking like a trooper
Next day she was at Spoons with a pint and feeding the kids breakfast
She should have her own Podcast
May 23
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
“It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again”
“It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused”
“I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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State of these lot
Grow up #usa
May 25
Youth soccer tournament in Southern California over the holiday weekend.
Too much ego, lack of education and sometimes even alcohol makes this kind of incident unsurprising.
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