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“What are they doing?” “They look like Bambi on ice.” “I don’t get it. They could do that a few weeks ago.”…

Let me make one thing clear, as I do at every presentation we run for clubs, coaches and parents: I’m not a…

We often talk on this site about the place of winning in children’s sport: it matters, but it shouldn’t be the main…

As an organisation, we’re often asked to support and promote events like Silent Weekend, Silent Sunday or Silent September, and people often…

We’ve looked at what makes an effective coach and a good coaching session. Now we turn to what makes a good sports…

I received an email from a distraught parent recently. She described a scene where the coach screamed at the girls after a…

You’ve paid the fees. You’ve kitted your child out at no small expense. You’ve got them to training, and you’re standing on…

Every sport – in every nation – talks about the phenomenon of the sport “drop out rate”, i.e. the rate at which…

Disclaimer: I’m writing this not as a disgruntled coach tired of “pain-in-the-butt” parents, but as someone who has watched a generation of…

Thank you to Richard Cheetham MBE who wrote this article through the eyes of his daughter to help us understand what it…