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The Last Confederations Cup

So evolution has taken it’s toll, the scalp has been claimed, the fear factor lost. The Confederations Cup proved to be an impressive warm up to next years spectacle in Rio, the much feared tika taka was proven not to be so frightening if you turn up armed with

Blochairn Match Report Again

The Classic Match report, was never any good at it but I thought to keep hold of it anyways. The Glasgow wind was providing its typical spring bite as Blochairn hosted their final game against the soon to be folded Whitefield who will go through a restructuring including the scrapping

The Racism Chat

Unless you have spent the last few weeks on some remote island where there is no connection to the outside world, if so lucky you, you would more than likely learned of the frankly pain in the neck ferdinand terry lack of handshake affair. What we will do today though

Womens Football

Today we look at some history, more specifically the history of women’s football. In 1920 a decision made by the Scottish Football Association to place a ban on the possibility of women’s football being played in any official sanctioned game, the result meaning no official grounds by SFA

Glasgow and District Youth Football League

Today we pay a visit to the Glasgow and District Youth Football League, the seven year old league has three sections, 13, 14s and 19s, the league is designed in such a way to allow a substantial development phase throughout the two younger age groups to ready the potential to

Match Report

The Glasgow wind was providing its typical spring bite as Blochairn hosted their final game against the soon to be folded Whitefield who will go through a restructuring including the scrapping of the name which has been in existence for the past 6 years, rising from bottom of the strathclyde

Leith Athletic FC

The origins of the Leith Athletic FC can be traced back all the way to 1887, where the club consisted in a variety of forms until 1955 where they met their unfortunate demise. Fast forward to 1996 and the name Leith Athletic was revived with more of a focus around

Football Blogging Awards

I was really pleased to hear that the blog was accepted into the football blogging awards network, this consists of a network of blogs and fan sites writing about a variety of different things from football manager to barcelona. The Coaching Column is filed under non league and grassroots.

Fresh Material

Done some reorganizing and rewriting to keep the standard of text up, obviously the main focus of the blog is to offer up some dedicated ideas to coached looking to source in some new material, so I have also added a page dedicated to such a cause so head here

Delivery

Over time I have learned that there are 2 elements to coaching, delivery and the tools available. Your job is to create the tools and deliver them effectively. For a long time I had a major problem with the delivery aspect, in order to solve that problem I put together