Author Archives: Kevin Bryant

Monday u12s Futsal League is neck and neck, who will blink first? Team Dubz or the Dragons?

GSC Dubz have played 13 W11 L1 D 1 Points 34

Discoveries Dragons are played 13 W10 D2 L1 Points 32

Goal difference does NOT apply.

Both have 3 games left.  It’s looking likely that the title will go down to the last match.  Dragons vs. Dubz!

Pictures are from Dubz last game vs. Immingham Wanderers.  A tight match that Dubz won 3-1.

Team manager permissions were given for the above pictures.

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Social media can be a positive for sport. It can also destroy matches.

Over the 60+ years I have been involved in football, I have seen many changes. Some related to the Laws, others social.

A recent social change is a small number of teams that are being controlled by a players WhatsApp group rather than respecting and supporting the team manager on his WA group.

Mavis in the group decides he’s not going to play against The Unbeatable’ s because ‘it’s not worth turning up, just to get beat.’ Best pal James agrees; I’ll get my mum to put on the managers WA group that ‘I’m off to a party’. Fred then tells his mum that he has a ‘runny nose’ and want be fit to play. Another suddenly gets a ‘niggling’ injury and needs a week’s rest.

Not one person in the group stands up and say’s ‘come on guys, we owe it to ourselves, our manager and the opposition to play.’ ‘So we lost 10-0 last time, anything below that will be a win for us.’ Let’s do it, let’s play, worst that can happen is we lose.

All leagues affiliated to the LFA have rules that apply when teams leave or fail to play. All have a cost to the club and a possibility the players will be banned from all LFA football. The simple and best option is to play all your matches, win or lose, and leave at the end of, in our case, the competition.

League Rules are at:
League & Management Rules

Latest Futsal Coaching Courses Information / Note the first course is FREE online

The more skilled the coach the more likely they will be to improve their protégées.

The hard thing about being a volunteer coach is finding the time, and the expense inconvenience to improve your skills.

An online Futsal course, with an added weekend active course, is soon to be held in Leeds. https://learn.englandfootball.com/courses

Grasp the opportunity. One local coach is booked in already.

 

Wake up FA, and smell the coffee.

Will all managers and players take note that the GFL insists that ALL players must wear shin pads that meet FA standards. FA standards state that a shin pad should be made of a suitable material and cover the shin.

The photo shows Grelish with the ‘teenage size’ pads he says he plays in. One then asks the question ‘why are Premier League referees allowing him to play in teenage size pads?’
Our referees have sent junior players from the field of playing, because they were wearing shin-pads a quarter the size the ones Grelish is allegedly wearing!

This is just another example of Premier League referees setting an example that makes life more difficult for those of us on the bottom step of the refereeing ladder.

Premier League referee allowing themselves to be harassed by juvenile players – the same players that do not retreat at free-kicks, until it suits them. I could go on and on. The Premier League referee does it protected by cameras and police, we do it alone on an isolated pitch.