Steven Duff

@TouchlineX Must be an absolute bastard delivering papers there like!

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: This picture of Uganda U15 at the CAF schools tournament in Zimbabwe is currently going viral on Social Media, with many people claiming these players are not U15.

@ruinedshirts Online at the beginning was the best it ever got

PES 1 through to PES 6 was as good as it got. So easily playable. Wracked up hours and hours on it. Gutted it just died one day 😔

A map of Britain showing who everyone is supporting tonight…

Stop what you're doing and watch this for a laugh.

Another One Of My Favourites Gayfield Park Arbroath Scotland

@90sfootball youtu.be/h6VOGrye_-s

We all played this legendary game in the 90s!

@SheepFiddlers @AberdeenFC

Let’s get behind the team!!! Heed First @AberdeenFC # coyr

Box office 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Teamgrassroots_ Foul all day as never gets shoulder to shoulder and definitely a booking with final warning for the haircut

Great battle, you're now the ref was It a foul? #grassrootsfootball #TeamGrassroots #GRF

@Podcastpotters If the team plays 10 yards higher up and get players around him we’d see a different player.

Milan Smit — honest thoughts, Stokies? At a reported £4.8M, is he the right man to make an impact next season, or does he need time to settle in? 🤔 #SCFC #StokeCity #Potters #TransferTalk #Championship #FootballDebate

@cm9798v2 Notman, Nevland and John Curtis out of Man U’s reserves always turned into absolute beasts.

I challenge you - who was the most overrated player in the original game? #CM9798

@terabump2 @TheS_Resource How do they earn the respect of their peers if it’s just handed to them? If they earn their spot then affiliation and team spirit grows. If everyone gets equal time regardless it’s a crèche facility not a football team.

@DickWedge1 @TheS_Resource Exactly. The kids enjoy saying they play on a winning team as well. Where has society gone.

Nobody prepares you for the moment a parent says the quiet part out loud. Ten years ago, whilst coaching a U10 football team in America, I'd taken over a team from another coach.I knew what I was walking into, the culture was winning at all costs with the playing style being very direct, i.e. long balls, nothing else. Parents coached from the sidelines like they had the whistle. Results weren't just important, they were everything the only thing). Before the season, I handed every parent a questionnaire in an attempt to generate their thoughts on player development, expectations and what they wanted from the experience. In hindsight, I tried to change things too quickly, but I tried for equal playing time, or as close to it as I could manage. A different style of play and a different way of thinking about what development actually meant at ten years old. Initially, the results went against us, especially in the eyes of the parents, which resulted in the mood shifting, and I could feel it. After one particular game, walking back to the car park, casually and with no drama, one of the parents walked next to me: Parent: "Can I ask you something? The equal playing time thing, what's the thinking behind it?" Coach: "Every player in that squad deserves to develop. That's what I'm here for, to support all of them, not just the ones who might help us win on game day." (A pause, he nods slowly.) Parent: "I hear you, but honestly? I'd rather you didn't play my son as much. If it means we win." (The coach stops walking.) Coach: "You'd rather your son plays less." Parent: "If it means we win, yeah. When we win, the mood's different, the parents are happier. It's just better for everyone." Coach: "You're paying thousands of dollars for your child not to play?" Parent: (calmly) "If it means we win. Yeah." (A beat.) Coach: "I'm a coach, my role is to develop every player in that squad. Not to manage how happy the parents feel from one weekend to the next." (The parent smiles. Starts walking again.) Parent: "Think about it." (He walks away, casually, like he'd suggested nothing unusual at all.) I stood there for a moment, he wasn't angry, aggressive, but meant every word of it. That was the moment I understood, it wasn't about the boys. It had never really been about the boys. The results meant something to the parents that had nothing to do with football, which was a sense of belonging. Something to carry into the week and to talk about when they met. They were playing through their children, and no questionnaire, conversation, or equal playing time policy was going to change that. Some cultures are bigger than one coach with a different idea. I learned that walking back to a car park in America, ten years ago, and I've never forgotten it.

@herder_turd @TheS_Resource I’d question why they’d be considered the 10th best player if they can do that being honest. In football reading the game better and quicker makes up for physical disadvantages. If you’re a yard quicker in your head then you’re laughing

@DickWedge1 @TheS_Resource The 10th best outfield player being able to contain the opposition when marking or move the ball quickly and accurately in attack makes all the difference in the world.

@herder_turd @TheS_Resource It’s all about balance- concentrate too much on the top players and you’ll lose vital squad players. Concentrate too much on development players and the better players will move on.

@DickWedge1 @TheS_Resource The truth is half the kids on the team won’t play past 12U - and many of the ones that keep playing are the “20 minute” kids who aren’t athletic enough to play American football or lacrosse. Those kids are absolutely vital to winning games in high school.

The REAL big 6 are all together in their home!

@satocoach10 My daughter wants to play defence and always chooses to play there. Asked her why she preferred it and she surprised me - it takes a whole game to get a clean sheet but you can fluke a goal any time.

「なんでうちの子、 ずっとディフェンスなんですかね。 フォワードやらせてみたいんですけど」 この相談、毎年必ず受ける。 正直に言う。 コーチはディフェンスを 「余り物の置き場所」だとは 思っていない。 むしろ逆だ。 試合前、コーチが 最初に配置を決めるのは ディフェンスラインだ。

@nostalggio They were more boring than Euro 2004 Greece. Worst World Cup by a mile.

Watching Spain at the 2010 World Cup: 🤢🤢🤢

@ImDavidJ13 I’ll confidently predict the Women’s World Cup in Brazil will be an absolute banger and a throw back to the World Cups we remember as kids.

As a man I fucking can’t stand the misogyny men show towards women’s football fucking pisses me right off

@potterscope_ Pottermus- half arsed shenanigans since before Christmas

Who do we think they are?