The How To Coach Grassroots Football Podcast

In the final episode of season 2 James, Jonny and Luke debate the FA's latest introduction to the grassroots game.

Excitement is our Word of the Week at the FFF!

A new month can often mean some newfound optimism!

In the latest episode of the Football Fun Factory podcast James, Jonny and Luke debate the benefits and the potential drawbacks of having A & B teams in youth football.

Friend! That’s our Word of the Week for our sessions this week. With it being Friendship Day this week, we thought it was a brilliant word to focus on.⁠

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We love to see friends attending our programmes here at the FFF, but we also love to see new friendships being formed as a result of our experiences.⁠

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Football has an incredible ability to bring people together, create new friendships as well as strengthen existing ones.⁠

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At the FFF, we’ll be talking to the children all about what the word friend means to them, as well as how they can make new friends with each other.⁠

Togetherness is the Word of the Week for our sessions at the Football Fun Factory.

With the Olympics kicking off this week, what a brilliant word it is to showcase.

The Olympics are all about ‘togetherness’ bringing people from different backgrounds, beliefs and countries all together, through the power of sport.

At the Football Fun Factory, we aim to use the power of football to do the exact same thing.

The togetherness that we see within our communities is truly incredible, and we love to witness the children at our sessions showcasing brilliant togetherness.

This week at the sessions, we’ll be talking to the children about how they can showcase ‘togetherness’ throughout, and how they can also take what they learn at our sessions, and apply it to other parts of their lives, whether it’s at home or at school!

Should children play in different positions at a grassroots level?

In the latest episode of the Football Fun Factory podcast, Luke and Jonny debate whether children should be playing in different positions each week, or whether they should just stick to one!

With plenty of playing experience around the table (mainly through Luke) this episode gives a great insight into both sides of this debate.

The focus is on fun at the Football Fun Factory. This week, we’re making ‘Focus’ our Word of the Week.⁠

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We love to see children focused at our sessions, and we are able to keep them focused through creating a fun and engaging environment for them to enjoy their football within.⁠

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At our sessions this week, we’ll be asking the children what they think focus means, as well as how they can show it within our sessions this week.⁠

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In keeping with the spirit of ‘focus’ we’d love to focus on our Football Fun Factory podcast, created by founders James and Jonny! Each week they talk through our Word of the Week so that children can have a bit of insight about the Word of the Week, ahead of their sessions.⁠

It's been a celebration of football with the Euro’s running these last few weeks, so with the final this Sunday, it only seems right that we make Celebration our Word of the Week.

It’s been great to see so many celebrations on the biggest stage of them all, but what we love to see is the celebrations within our community.

At the FFF we love to see celebration on show in it’s most basic form after goals are being scored, but we also love to have a celebration of the children that make our programmes what they are.

At the FFF at the end of every session, we celebrate children that showcase fantastic behaviours throughout our sessions, with our Blue Cards, and for our younger participants, we have a hand stamp to celebrate the end of a brilliant Tots session.

We’re all about celebration at the FFF, and we can’t wait to hear what the children make of it as our Word of the Week this week!

Do England fans deserve more from the national team, or are people overreacting?