miller

I'm not entirely sure what is recorded or not, only get to see the fixtures online. Definitely needs to be enjoyment above anything at this age. Kids will learn much easily if the task they are doing is fun. It probably would have been but I was getting more and more frustrated by the situation and as my stood there nearly crying looking scared I had to step in. But like I said, he's not a coach, he's a parent who is helping out the best he can which unfortunately seems a little beyond him but no one else, myself included is stepping up to take the reigns all for varying reasons.

At that age the games are competitive but not recorded, no league table etc which can I suppose be seen as a good thing and a bad thing. This coach/manager has an attitude to win which whilst its fantastic to win games but its also important to lose too. My son plays for the reds and probably won 75% of their games and lost the rest whereas the Blacks won 95% of games and when they lost once they were all crying, saying they didn't want to play anymore. My son is the same whether they win or lose, he's happy to be part of it most weeks. The current manager has been known to play the strongest team no matter in a bid to just win the game whereas there are children who get to play as little as 5 minutes when their parents may have travelled up to an hour to a game, which isn't fair at all. If I were in a position to manage the team I would but I can't commit to that every weekend unfortunately. I didn't start playing youth football until I was 12/13 and I was a sore loser because before that I didn't know what losing felt like. Gradually I overcame that in the season because we lost most weeks to begin with. I started as a CB because I was one of two players that would head the ball, then moved to centre midfield because despite my thin/underweight physique I wouldn't shy away from a crunching tackle to break up play and that's when passing/vision really improved. I always pep talk my son a bit on the way to games, try and concentrate and just get involved, whether its trying to win the ball back or playing a pass or shot on goal, whether he is successful or not doesn't matter. Things will improve for every child at different rates, we all know that, its finding the healthy balance of pushing them to learn and letting them learn for themselves in differing situations. He knows when he has had a bad game but I tell him about the positives he did, made a tackle here or made a good pass there. Positive reinforcements to do those things again in the next game. At the moment my son watches a lot of YouTube videos of the likes of Mbappe, Neymar because of the skills, so I showed him Ronaldinho and he loves him too now. I wanted to gradually show him more players like Lampard, Seedorf and Pirlo. Lampard for his ability to perfectly time late run into the box, Seedorf because of his power in midfield and Pirlo because of his passing ability/vision. Maybe that's how I saw myself as a player when I was younger and want to instill some of that into my son.

My Son is 7 and has just completed his first season for KLSC in Norfolk and he did well considering he only joined because his friends were playing there. He's quite tall for his age and quick but doesn't utilise his size/speed at the moment. Like others have said about their child, he lacks the concentration for a full 40 minute game but when he does concentrate he plays really well. Normally he plays midfield in a two because he has the ability to get up and down the pitch but we need to work on his positional sense but that will come with time. He scored around 10-12 goals last season and made plenty of assists if you can really call a off-target shot or scuffed shot one. When I played football myself, I was OK, not quick at all but comfortable on the ball and had good at passing, I preferred to make a goal than score one. I had good awareness for space and could read the game well, so when I have a kickabout with my son I try to teach him to improve his technique for controlling the ball and passing it, rather than dribbling/running with it because I feel that will help his ability more playing as a midfielder longer term. Also trying to get him to use both his feet equally. I can could use my left just as well as my more dominant right foot which help me massively as player, for example I could put a corner in with either foot absolutely fine. The coaching is quite good at training but unfortunately the manager for my sons team is a parent of another child that plays and he has no qualifications/idea what he is doing. But its commendable he takes his Saturday morning out to help. However, I had a run in with him in the 2nd to last game. My son came on in the 3rd quarter, didn't do much, then he took him off the for the start of the 4th quarter, put him on for two minutes and took him off again. All this time there was no encouragement just shouting at him. I was fuming, the way he was speaking to my son in front of all the other players and parents. He was practically standing over my son, shouting at him for not doing what he should be doing. I stormed round to the other side of the pitch, got my son and drove home. Giving the manager a few choice words about his actions. I rang my ex and told her and she said that some of the other parents had already raised the same concerns previously to the overall organiser of KLSC. Sometimes I think I should have approached it better but other times I think I wasn't bold enough to him. He's still going to play for KLSC next season so we shall see what that brings.

Love some of the middle names from that list! Kurt Happy Zouma primarily...

How is he so rubbish his club history is ridiculous. Seems to have most recently went to a random Polish team, done rubbish, been sent to their 2nd team who seem to be semi-pro if that, then gets sent to 3rd tier in America. I think the career highlight for him has to be playing for Gabala FC in Azerbaijan. Being managed by Tony Adams must have been a huge incentive to return from America...

The nomadic striker Collins John plays for Pittsburgh Riverhounds*, if that badge hadn't already swayed your vote. *information taken from Wiki

Chiriches has been very good for Spurs. Apart from one or two mistakes, he's been one of their better defenders this season. Been awful from the times I've seen him this season but you're probably right over the course of the season. Forgot completely about Roger Johnson or he would have been in there.

GK - viviano Rb - roberge Cb - Chiriches Cb - Demichelis Lb - dossena Rm - kebe CM - kallstrom CM - boateng LM - Lamela St - aspas St - altidore Struggled for Gk & RB... Manager - Mulensteen

Still £160 up and probably only betting on the Gold Cup tomorrow. Can't see much else in the other races.

Colour Squadron 2nd pah but money back in a free bet tomorrow!

Any other contender than Annie Power or Big Bucks in the 3:20? think I may cover Big Bucks with a £20 bet just in case Annie Power doesn't deliver

Hills gave me a free bet from yesterday where if the fave comes second they refund the bet, so that's gone on a Dynaste/ Annie Power double (7/2 & 6/4 this morning) should return £225 if it comes in. Good start mind. I looked at Tarquin du Seuil this morning at 9/1 but decided against it :/

Typical, write the bet in here before and it comes second. :curse:

Backed Balthazar King which came in of course for another £80 and just put some money on Shaneshill in the last at 5/1

Probably it for today. Maybe tempted with a e/w bet if anything is mentioned.