Do you think a hard-line approach to coaching and parenting builds resilience? 🤔 Dr Chris Platts explains the drawbacks to this method 📉

This is the one thing every parent should know before their kids go through the academy system, says Dr Chris Platts 😮

Sometime an answer come out and it is exactly what you have been trying to say. If I could I would shout this out from the top of the tallest tower Thanks to 🎙️ It's Only Kids Football for asking such thought provoking questions. #academies #business #football

⚽️ Archie Gray ⚽️ Max Dowman ⚽️ Rio Ngumoha ⚽️ Ethan Nwaneri This gave me the idea for this week's video. youtu.be/j3PiTsHG4qg

Why foundations are important youtube.com/shorts/ZrxdqEB…

Head to Beres for a pork sandwich…

Never Standing Still: The digital version of fcbusiness Issue 168 is available to read online ➡️ bit.ly/fcbusiness168 IN THIS ISSUE: Matt Denny: Leading six years of change and growth at North Texas SC Also in this issue… In The Money: Ben Latty Interview:

🙏 Really pleased to have an article published in fcbusiness Magazine 📖 on player care. How can clubs maximise the potential of their academy through player care. Like in business, if you’re doing what you did five years ago, you’re already behind. #innovation

Hi Darren Grimes, which is it? We need ID cards or we don’t need ID cards. Because Councillor Darren Grimes can’t make up his mind.

Are Parents Losing Sight in Youth Football? ⚽ The Truth Nobody Talks About youtube.com/shorts/PcWiNWz… via YouTube

We need to talk about this: If the system won't change, that is an opportunity to beat it. #clubs #players #parents #guardians S2 EP8 | Football Academies Are Broken: The Truth No One Wants to Admit ... youtu.be/pCTt-tTuLMA?si… via YouTube

Really looking forward to delivering to the academy parents Wigan Athletic - How do we take ownership of our child’s career? - How can research give us the edge when doing the best for our child? - where will he be in 10-years-time? #personacare #careerplanning #football

❌ ❌ ❌ With no SELF AWARENESS, you are condemned to a LIFE lacking fulfilment and more likely to be a workplace dickhead, coach dickhead or leadership dickhead and subsequently living a life which isn’t as happy as it could be". #Leaders #book #leadership #books #Bookstagram

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An, Amazing read and top quality guy buy online today 👇🦉👍👏

Well, what a surreal evening meeting these two icons of the game #starstruck 😂

Altogether now….”they don’t make kits like that anymore” 😂

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My article for ⁦Guardian sport⁩ in the ⁦The Guardian⁩. England’s under-21 leagues are filled with players whose clubs see no future for them. Here’s how we can use research to support the development of young players theguardian.com/football/2025/…

Facilities- they’re just shiny things. Some of the clubs who have the best facilities in the world are catastrophically bad academies. Facilities can help but that can also hinder. What counts are the relationships, the cultures, the care, the knowledge and the coaching.