Pre-Match Warm Up Do you have a structure to your pre-match warm up?  This essential preparation is often over looked – especially at grassroots.  Managers end up completing match cards or stand about talking to parents leaving the players to their own device.  It’s amazing how many players run out the changing room with a ball & what is the...

Here is our latest coaching session provided by Tim Wareing. All of the equipment for these sessions can be purchased from our training equipment department. HOW MANY 1 v 1's DO YOU DO? How many coaches in the UK (& parents!) do you hear on the touch line shout, ‘PASS!’ or even worse, ‘GET RID OF IT!’  Why do we...

Emphasis To win ball & counter attack at speed. Set-Up Play takes place on half a pitch with 2 full size goals & the pitch split in half by cones. A supply of balls are placed in each goal with a keeper at either end. Organise 3 teams of 6. A team of white is in one half with 6...

Premier Leisure Stores Ltd has launched a new website Compression Sportswear The new website will focus on the niche market of compression wear. The product range will include compression tights, compression tops, shorts, socks and calf guards. The new products are supplied from 2XU, Canterbury, CWX and Compressport. Compression wear is becoming popular with elite athletes who want to optimise...

The Rugby Zone has just been launched in conjunction with The Soccer Store. The Rugby Zone will be offering the same excellent customer service as the existing Soccer Store. The store will focus on Rugby Training Equipment as well as match day equipment. This will include fitness equipment for all levels of players from schools rugby to club rugby. The...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has voiced concern over wealthy foreign business men investing in English Premier League football clubs. He has tasked Uefa president Michel Platini with enforcing tighter licensing rules on perspective club owners. Nine English Premier League Football clubs are currently under foreign ownership. His concerns are that the owner's don't always have the clubs best interest at heart and...

Terry Venables has confirmed that he is talks with troubled Newcastle United Football Club. Venables 65, who has previously managed Crystal Palace, QPR, Barcelona, Spurs, England, Middlesbrough and Leeds held talks on Wednesday and is the latest person to be linked with the club since Kevin Keegan left and Mike Ashley put the club up for sale. His last job was...

The premier football league is looking at the possibility of introducing a rule next season whereby 2 of the now 7 substitutes are to be home reared U21 year old academy players. The plan is being introduced to give players graduating from academies a chance of getting a foothold in the premier league against foreign imported players. The rule would need...

England face their toughest test in tonight's football against Croatia in Zagreb's Maksimir stadium where Croatia are yet to lose a game. Capello has stated that his men prefer the away games where there is less pressure on his players. The new Wembley stadium sometimes lacks atmosphere but surely this is partly down to the football being played. Fans certainly...

New Football Series on BBC 2: The Cup BBC 2 kicked off a new series last night. The Cup is filmed in the style of a documentary, in  a similar fashion to The Office. It follows the fortunes of an U11s football team and there over ambitious parents trying to relive their own youth through their children. Excited parents screaming...