Great piece shared on twitter by Nick Levett talent identification manager at the Fa

Woven into that is the idea of trying to find your fundamental purpose in life: and why would you be a coach? It’s a big question for everyone involved in coaching, particularly when you consider that you will be under the gaze of so many people who want results day-in, day-out. One of the key fundamental purposes to coaching is about helping people and if you like helping people, it certainly helps you to be a far better coach than if your fundamental purpose is just about achieving incredible results. I think a coach who is very focused on results can have success but I’m not sure that they have longevity – ­they’re possibly the coaches who move from club to club.”

 www.alloutcricket.com/cricket/features/john-buchanan-youve-got-to-understand-yourself-inside-out

Great book for the anal amongst us :)

http://whitehouseaddress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-way-forward-lesson-in-game.html?m=1




It is important however that the players are able to play in various positions and not be pigeon holed early, they must ‘learn the game’ from a variety of different positions in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the game as a whole as well as being offered different spatial problems and possibilities.