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Interview with Northern Ireland futsal assistant manager Garth Smith

As Henrik Mkhitaryan flicked in the second the hearts of football fans sunk. At 2-0 behind against Jose Mourinho's Manchester United everyone knew it, there would be no way back…

Interview with coach and author Gerard Jones.  

Interview with Damian Matthew, Everton development phase scout.

  Scenario: A football team is playing reasonably attractive football. This team is winning matches but not every match. There are even some unexpected losses. The team seems to score…

We discuss football and education.

The ball hangs in the night sky. A second moon until it disappears into the burning sun of the floodlights. The eyes of a broad chested, strongly built man clad…

"Why?" This was a difficult question to answer. "It doesn't work." Rebellion. This was 2014. My under 14s had experienced a handful of games playing with three central defenders. They…

Winners and losers. Sport is full of them. People going to great lengths to make certain that they end up a winner. People determined that they don't end up a…

Snap and snarl. Bite and bile. Fire and fury. Do we encourage these or discourage them? How do we handle the young player who comes off the pitch kicking the…