- 1. Grassroots footballers in Manchester awaiting the fate of the Trafford Soccer Dome ...
- (Stories)
- The deadline is approaching to decide the future of a scruffy but well-used sports centre, the closure of which could leave hundreds of children without football pitches to play on 23 January ~ ...
- Created on 23 January 2019
- 2. Thriving women's grassroots game gives a chance to those who missed out at school ...
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- If you did not get a chance to play football when you were young, taking it up later in life can give a new dimension to the game – as SJ Chonara explained in WSC 342, August 2015 6 February ~ A ...
- Created on 06 February 2018
- 3. Jeremy Corbyn talks about grassroots football and Arsenal to Copa90 ...
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- Created on 02 June 2017
- 4. Sin-bins are not the answer for already over-worked grassroots referees ...
- (Stories)
- ... Association, but the players and managers in his games don’t. They mostly rely on hazily retained views from TV and radio pundits. If Robbie Savage squeals “For me that’s never handball!” then grassroots ...
- Created on 03 May 2017
- 5. Supporting grassroots clubs across the country ...
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- Localgiving is a charity that makes it easy to find a worthy football cause near you 11 April ~ Thousands of grassroots clubs around the country play vital roles in their communities. Many also have ...
- Created on 11 April 2016
- 6. WSC 383 out now
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- ... s | Grassroots under threat | Kosovo ready for England | The big freeze of 1978-79 | Albion, Brechin & Dumbarton: lower league life in Scotland | The undermining of the Football League | Jersey to join t ...
- Created on 10 January 2019
- 7. WSC 381 out now
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- ... on the slide | Kyle Lafferty in hot water | Wembley not the way for grassroots | Premier League move into esports | Dover no part-time job | Dunston UTS v Gateshead photo feature | Focus on Ivan Golac ...
- Created on 13 November 2018
- 8. State Of Play: Under the skin of the modern game by Michael Calvin
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- Century, £16.99 Reviewed by Neil Andrews From WSC 380, November 2018 Buy the book Two years after England won the World Cup, journalist Arthur Hopcraft decided a thorough examination of the modern ...
- Created on 25 October 2018
- 9. YouTube team Hashtag United can bring younger fans to non-League matches
- (Stories)
- ... at the national stadium. While this may seem a world away from step-six football, Owen is at pains to point out that he has a strong connection to grassroots football. His father was the physio at Eas ...
- Created on 03 September 2018
- 10. Cut-throat academies abandon children to broken dreams and mental heath issues
- (Stories)
- ... one per cent becoming professional players. Obviously, the rejected players could end up at non-League clubs or even come back into the professional game. However, many have to go back to grassroots clubs ...
- Created on 31 May 2018
- 11. Quality is up but falling crowds leave A-League relying on national team
- (Stories)
- ... body, need to resolve. Quality on the pitch has improved as the league has grown more professional and, at grassroots level, football is the most-played sport across the whole country but this has failed ...
- Created on 05 April 2018
- 12. Leaky buckets, rabbit holes and molehills – life as a volunteer youth coach
- (Stories)
- ... £12 million a year to grassroots facilities. The FA, seemingly incapable of forcing a better deal, likes to portray its minimal investment as groundbreaking and its slow progress in grassroots (the respec ...
- Created on 02 March 2018
- 13. Remembering Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly – the pioneering football magazine
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- ... mystery is why such a publication took so long to appear. If football’s popularity is measured purely in attendances, rather than by grassroots participation or piles of dosh, the postwar period witnessed ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 14. WSC 372 out now
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- ... | grassroots inequality | depleted Hartlepool | celebrating Stanley Matthews | Inside the dressing room | Harry Pearson on deranged games teachers | Focus on Just Fontaine | Partizan Belgrade’s eventual ...
- Created on 09 January 2018
- 15. On The Brink: A journey through English football’s north west by Simon Hughes
- (General)
- ... rage against the unfair distribution of football’s increasing wealth, as top-level clubs suck it up while lower-league clubs and the grassroots game struggle to exist. One force of resistance, however, ...
- Created on 22 November 2017
- 16. WSC 368 out now
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- ... in the air at the moment. Buy here to read the full article Official complaint Grassroots refereeing “Your refereeing’s a pile of shit!” The player knows what he’s doing here. He’s had enough for ...
- Created on 06 September 2017
- 17. Oligarchs and oil barons have made owning a club beyond your wildest dreams
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- ... club instead. At first that may appear attractive. But taking a grassroots small-town club and leading them all the way up from the Conference North to the UEFA Cup is perilous. I have explored it recently ...
- Created on 14 August 2017
- 18. No Hunger In Paradise: The players. The journey. The dream by Michael Calvin
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- ... It’s a journey across the landscape of youth football, from unusable grassroots pitches and parents tempted by untold riches, to Manchester City’s faintly sinister training mega-complex and the highest ...
- Created on 25 May 2017
- 19. WSC 363 out now
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- ... in his games don’t. They mostly rely on hazily retained views from TV and radio pundits. If Robbie Savage squeals “For me that’s never handball!” then grassroots referees will feel the backlash if their ...
- Created on 04 April 2017
- 20. WSC writers’ competition 2016 winner ~ I am the ref by Roy Williams
- (Stories)
- ... which of course was not a new experience. Anyone engaged in grassroots football will have views about the FA and those of us in refereeing are no exception. There have been many improvements, such as this ...
- Created on 09 February 2017
