Grassroots football to return

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Have things changed much at kids grassroots football since I took my 'joke' level 1 back in around 2006ish ?

Reason for asking open our windows this morning and all you can hear is some coach shouting at the top of his voice ! Guess he is coaching kids around the 8,9,10 age group.
You cant here the kids or any other sound just his bloody voice !.
I cant think of any reason for him to be so loud. I think I only spoke to the kids I coached.
I also thought the fa were trying to stop all this shouting at kids , seems not.
 
Grassroots kids football is too important to be left to be dinosaurs like that.
 
give it to gordon said:
Have things changed much at kids grassroots football since I took my 'joke' level 1 back in around 2006ish ?

Reason for asking open our windows this morning and all you can hear is some coach shouting at the top of his voice ! Guess he is coaching kids around the 8,9,10 age group.
You cant here the kids or any other sound just his bloody voice !.
I cant think of any reason for him to be so loud. I think I only spoke to the kids I coached.
I also thought the fa were trying to stop all this shouting at kids , seems not.
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The irony in your name lol
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The irony in your name lol
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That's how I remember grassroots football sadly.

I really enjoyed coaching my team, we had great fun with lots of 4 a side games. I used to use coaching books by Malcolm Cook an old family friend and a very highly thought coach.

I use to hate matches , it was all about 3 points and not improving them as players. Bad parents, coaches/manager's shouting abuse at kids. It was so bad that once I had cleared my 4 year bad for reporting bully ! I never went back to coaching.
 
If you consider grass roots football to be all football played by amateurs then the game is dying .I am in my 70s now and played from before I can remember up until I got a bad knee injury at 23 . In Liverpool alone the Sunday League had over 20 divisions then there was leagues in Kirkby Bootle Business houses and others that had multiple divisions. There must have been 2 or 3000 teams playing weekend senior football without the kids teams Nearly all of those have gone I think the Liverpool Sunday League now has 2 divisions. Young kids play organised football but I can't remember the last time I saw a group of kids having a game in the street. The professional teams Hoover kids up from the age of 5 or 6 and then spit them out when they think they are not good enough. I have no idea what the end product will be but I see kids now who are not in the least bit interested in the game. I can never remember that being the case before
 
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