Highlighting the good, the bad and the ugly side of parents and coaches around grassroots football
North West, England
Joined July 2022
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£80 a month, £20 for an extra 1 to 1 session, £100 for the tracksuit/training kit and 25 kids signed on. Welcome to Elite Academy FC
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Happy to have @KEVIN11ELLISON as are new manager for next season. Not many better than him at this level. Top pro & proper football man. The lads are looking forward to it ⚽️⚽️🤝
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The plans for @GarswoodUTD have been submitted
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Wow..... Shocking behaviour from whoever runs this league. Stopping 6 year old kids from playing football, madness!
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I would love to say nice things about my game today but it was truly spoilt by a terrible atmosphere and parents bad mouthing a young ref looking to learn. Good on him abandoning it at 2-1. He had a good game in a physical match.
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The state and behaviour of some at grassroots football is a real concern and seems to be getting worse to the point were its ruining it for everyone
Win, lose or draw it is unacceptable for so called role models to be acting aggressively & threatening at kids football games
Grassroot Football Dad retweeted
Best of luck to all the grassroots referees who will go to games alone, no assistants, no VAR, no 4th officials and be expected to give a faultless performance on par with the refs you see on TV and if the teams lose, be the one who gets blamed.
You are appreciated. 👍
Another morning of listening to an absolute 🔔🔚 on the line encouraging his son to 'snap' another u11 player
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Great to see Ashley Williams, fresh from recently battering a youth coach, discussing the ethics and morality of this World Cup in the BBC... 🙄
So parents are forming cult like groups and are now dictating to managers/coaches what kids are good enough for their team or how much game time certain kids should be getting with the threat of all leaving the team if the coach doesn't follow what they think🤦🫣🤷🏻♂️
Grassroots football is on its arse...you've got ex managers trying to prevent KIDS from joining other teams using every tactic they can just to prevent them from carrying on wanting to play football just because they left his team.
Grassroot Football Dad retweeted
Kids footy.... brings out the best but also the absolute worst in people. People need to remember what we do this for.... the kids.
Grassroot Football Dad retweeted
Get ready for Silent Support Weekend this weekend. 🤫
Let's find out what happens when we turn the noise down and give those on the pitch the chance to find their own voice. ⚽️
Grassroot Football Dad retweeted
I think grassroots coaching should be mostly observing and facilitating. Create simple, game like activities, and then let the players play it how they want. For a child, trial and error based off their own ideas, rather than those of an adult (regardless of their background in
Grassroot Football Dad retweeted
When a parent is considering clubs for their kid to join, this is the most important question they should ask "who will coach my kid?" Not what crest will they wear? Players have often joined great clubs with poor coaches simply for the crest
