Ross Brooks talks to former professional footballer Mark Roberts all about planning for life after being on the pitch.

Fiona Wilson talks all about The Importance of Player & Coach Wellbeing.

Sally is passionate about the Psychological and Social aspects of life through a Neuroscience Lens, Sally is also a Coach, Coach Developer & Consultant. 

Mark Bennett MBE has spent the last 30 years developing robust and scalable strategies and tools to help organisations, teams and individuals maximise the performance potential of themselves and the people they are influencing.

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In the third Coaches Insight episode we speak with Richard Shorter: (The Non-Perfect Dad) on how the role of the parents is so important and ways you can promote good behaviours.

The second in our Coaches Insight Series. This week we speak with Tom Statham of Manchester United.

Stewart & Ross talk to Rangers Football Academy coach, Thomas Carpels. They talk all about Brain Training in football and where it could be leading to! 

Paddy McCarthy is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, most recently for English club Crystal Palace. He currently serves as the Under-18s coach at Crystal Palace. Born in Dublin, he began his football career as a junior with Manchester City before joining Leicester City in 2005 where he spent three seasons before joining Charlton Athletic in the summer of 2007. He remained with Charlton for just twelve months, joining Crystal Palace in the summer of 2008 where he remained until 2016. McCarthy has also played for Boston United and Notts County on loan during the early part of his career and Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End, also as a loan player. In December 2016, he was appointed Under-18s coach.

Paddy speaks to Shaun Derry from footballdna.co.uk reflecting on his career pathway and taking his first steps into coaching making the transition from playing.

Jamie Lawrence is a former professional football player having made 70 appearances in the Premier League. He played as a right winger for Sunderland, Doncaster Rovers, Leicester City, Bradford City, Walsall, & Wigan Athletic. He also has 24 caps for the Jamaican National team. His route to professional football was very different to many others, having led a very troubled lifestyle as a teenager with a period of time in prison. He then went onto play for teams in the lower pyramid on his release and build his career in the game.

Jamie now has developed his own academy where he takes young players who have been released from professional clubs at the age of 16 years old. He helps them develop by coaching them on the pitch and helps with their physical conditioning required for senior football. Another aspect Jamie goes onto speak about is improving young players attitude and work ethic which he believes is missing in a lot of young players he meets. He is also a big believer in teaching life skills and holds time management in high regard. Jamie’s academy has now been going for the past 10 years and recently one of the players he supported Zavon Hines made the move back into professional football with Chesterfield.

On this interview, Robin Shroot features who is another one of Jamie’s players he has worked with. Robin was released by Wimbledon and then went onto play for clubs such as Birmingham City, Walsall, Burton Albion, Cheltenham Town. He has had a period of time in Norway and now currently plays for Nashville in America.

In this interview Martyn Margetson the current England National Team Senior Goalkeeping Coach sits down with Jimmy Walker to discuss his career, goalkeeping topics and individual England goalkeepers!

“Marge” started his playing career with Manchester City, joining their youth system in 1988.He went on to make 60 first-team appearances for the Maine Road side, while also having loan spells with Bristol Rovers, Bolton and Luton Town.

He left City for Southend in 1998, before playing for Huddersfield and Cardiff, becoming player-coach at the latter and moving into a goalkeeping coach position after hanging up his gloves in 2007.Margetson, who was capped by his country against Canada in 2004, joined the Wales national set-up to work with Gary Speed in 2011.He remained involved under Chris Coleman as the Dragons enjoyed an unforgettable run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.

Margetson then made the switch to England in August 2016, initially working under Sam Allardyce and then remaining in Gareth Southgate’s backroom team as the Three Lions reached the World Cup semi-finals, as well as the UEFA Nations League finals.At club level, he moved to West Ham in 2014, before returning to Cardiff. He has since worked at Crystal Palace and Everton and now makes the switch to the Liberty Stadium.