The Coaches Notepad

Newcastle United…Having only watched 55 minutes of the Tyne-wear derby I have to be very honest, I really really enjoyed it. However, did i enjoy it for its enormous amounts of technical quality, did i enjoy it for its tactical chess like feeling.. Or did I enjoy the physicality and ambition of Sunderland? Probably...

PressingPressing has definitely become a very publicised area of the game in recent years. Teams such as Dortmund, Atletico, Southampton and Barcelona have helped display the effects of pressing in leagues through the world, the much discussed pressing can provide teams with opportunities to regain possession and limit the oppositions areas of effectiveness.Why/When Do...

Challenging Accepted Strategies The early Iraqi Scientist ‘Hasan Ibn al-Haytham’ is often referred to as the father of the modern scientific approach, this same scientific approach, is the one that we as Sports Coaches should be using to help improve and challenge the strategies we use. The approach can be summarised as ‘Questioning what you...

How to win the game?, one of the most fundamentally simple yet complexed questions a coach must ask before a game. During this blog I want to look at how coaches approach games and how better coaches could approach games, and question the approach I have seen commonly in grassroots, academy and non league...