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Administration

SPOND: HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC AFFECTED GRASSROOTS MANAGERS?

SPOND have over a million active grassroots users, and they give us the insight on how we’re finding our feet after the pandemic and...

Tech

BROADCAST YOUR GRASSROOTS GAMES: JOYMO & FILMMYMATCH

Grassroots broadcasting platform, Joymo, has partnered with FilmMyMatch, the leading provider of grassroots filming and analysis services for amateur sport in the UK, to...

Greatest Games

MY GREATEST GAME #6

MY GREATEST GAME: SUBSTANDARD LIEGE VS THE POACHERS, 2015 LEAGUE: COUNTY DURHAM FA, MEN'S 7ASIDE WORDS: ANDREW MARTIN ILLUSTRATIONS: MILLIE CHESTERS It’s 2015. Uptown Funk is enveloping the...

Hall of Fame

HALL OF FAME #5: CHRIS SPIERS

In each issue, we celebrate a player who deserves to have their grassroots career up in lights by inducting them into The Grassroots Hall...

Inspire

FOTMOB’S INCLUSIVE & INSPIRATIONAL: LADIES FOOTBALL ACADEMY

In each issue, FotMob - the livescore app - are sponsoring a feature on inclusive and inspirational grassroots stories and assisting in their development...

College and University

ECFA: COLLEGUE CONQUERORS OF ROME

The ECFA shapes college students’ lives, improves access to football for local communities and brings home championship-winning trophies from Italy to boot. Truly one...

Funding

GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL FUNDING – IS IT ENOUGH?

With the elite game in the UK bringing in astronomical amounts of money, is the grassroots game being left behind? Is a multi-million pound...

Administration

HOW TO RUN A GRASSROOTS LEAGUE…

Not many people in grassroots football are as well placed as Graham Rodber to give us insight into how to run a league. While...

Referees

TREVOR BOOKING: WHISTLEBLOWER #6

Trevor Booking* is a grassroots referee who in each issue will blow the whistle on what it’s really like to take control of grassroots...

Referees

REFEREE ABUSE: THE STAIN ON THE GRASSROOTS GAME

Grassroots football has returned in 2021/22 for what will hopefully be the first full season in recent years. While there has been widespread positivity,...

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