Sep Blatter hoped that Fifa would today ratify moving the 2022 World Cup, which will take place in Qatar, to the (i.e. Europe’s) winter months, however, that looks unlikely to happen. Fifa are split on the matter while Uefa president, Michel Platini, is keener to focus today’s meeting on the working conditions of migrant workers based in Qatar.
Right now Fifa have no grounds to withdraw the award of the World Cup hosting rights from Qatar, the award was made in full knowledge of the country’s climate. The treatment of migrant workers could change this. Fifa can insist that World Cup preparations do not expose workers to undue risk or inappropriate conditions. If Qatar cannot deliver within acceptable working practices the basis for legal grounds to withdraw the award has been established.
I wouldn’t book tickets for Qatar just yet.
The most enduring frustration from Tuesday night is for Charlie Mulgrew. Playing in his fourth choice position, which would never really be a choice Charlie would make, he did exactly what was asked of him against Iniesta and Xavi. His chance on 73 minutes could just as easily have bounced inside the post, which would have bestowed appropriate appreciation for the effort one of our own has put into his career.
Bring on the Ajax.
I’m curious as to who gave the £2.5m personal guarantee to lend Rangers International money, noted in their accounts this week. This is as big a financial commitment anyone has made to the Newco in some time.
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Saw some of the discussion about coaching etc. and thought I’d share some of my experiences.
I currently coach a 2006’s team, I have been coaching a lot of these kids since they were 4 years old including my own son. I currently hold level 1.1 Early Touches and 1.2 coaching young footballers (this was a two day course at Lennoxtown). I have other guys coaching with me some who have their full children and Youth/Adult coaching qualifications.
Here’s a link to the current coaching structure
http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_football.cfm?page=3616
I have been working with the same kids for 3 years now and my emphasis has always been on the following:
Passing
Control
Using Skills
Fun
My kids train once a week for 1.5 hours and then since March play 4 a side games against other teams. These are small sided games on small pitches with small goals and no goalkeepers and coaches are discouraged from coaching as these games are about letting the kids play and putting into practise what they have been learning as well as letting them make their own decisions.
Is 1.5 hours a week training enough? Nope not even close; I’d love to able to dedicate more time but between being employed full time, refereeing, ferrying my son to his other activities etc. I just don’t have the time and already give up a sizeable chunk of my Thursdays and Fridays as well as other time, as I am also the secretary and need to make sure all the appropriate paperwork is done.
But even if I had time, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to do more training due to costs, pitch availability, other coaches availability etc. plus most of kids do other activities or have brothers and sisters who need to be ferried around as well so it’s not easy for parents either.
But what I really wanted to talk about was the kind of coaching that is done etc.
So my kids play and train with a size 3 football and won’t move on to a size 4 football until they are 10/11. I have encouraged all the parents to buy their kids a size 3 football so they can practise in the garden, the house etc.
They play different 4 aside games on small pitches that are still big enough to allow them to utilise the space they have. Some games use small goals, some use marked areas, some have points for passes completed. The kids love it and are not coached when they play these games. You can see who has natural ability to fall back and be in a position to cover and defend, you can see those who are natural leaders, who guide and advise their team mates and you get the enjoyment of seeing them having fun while being under no pressure.
In training we work on many things but the recurring theme is passing, movement, control, introducing skills e.g. Cruyff turn, and talking. That’s one of the difficulties as kids get older, get 15 teenagers in a dressing room and they will never shut up, get them onto a football pitch and all of a sudden they are mutes! So get the talking engrained early and hopefully it sticks.
I have around 20 kids currently and they will play Fun 4’s until the end of October and take a break until March when they will play 2 more sessions with the summer holidays in between. Training will continue until the Christmas hols.
In 2015 they will start to play Soccer Sevens which is 7 aside games, we will spilt our group of 20 into 2 teams of tens but continue to train as a big group so that after 3 years of playing sevens we can come back together as one team for 11 aside football.
Soccer Seven games are played on a smaller surface, with smaller goals. Some regions have a 5 aside game in between 4’s and sevens.
The club I coach with has an ethos of participation and fun and all kids get a fair share of playing time, it’s not the same with all clubs who emphasise winning over fun and enjoyment. Kids are naturally competitive – you don’t actually need to train them in that!
Kids are getting picked up a lot earlier and going into pro-youth etc. but I have dozens of examples of kids being picked up by Celtic and Rangers etc. and the parents are expected to ferry them to training 2-3 times a week and believe me Lennoxtown and Murray park are not easy places to get to for people who work and live on the east coast so a lot of promising kids get lost to the game because parents get disillusioned etc.
Also some of the scouting by clubs is frightening with many of them still looking for tall strong players and rejecting better players because they are too small! Football is constantly evolving but some clubs are stuck in the 1980’s and 1990’s!
Anyway that was long ramble so apologies!
For anyone looking for more information go to http://www.scottishyouthfa.co.uk/
Four to go for fifty here
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
Wouldn’t like to say that drunk, but I simply mean that the tally of support stands at 1,436 and is four signatures away from a target for today of 1,450!
correction1,446
1400 + views
Wakey Wakey.
HH
my goodness the sevcovians are easily wound up on twitter ..
You point out the truth and the deluge and variety of abuse is swift, considerable and nasty..
But it’s worth it..
HH
Tallybhoy
Best wishes to your Dad!
When the YOUTUBE Masses wake up……….
There will be, heaven knows…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaUUYV7wKos
The Collins Brothers are educated…. I trust nobody BUT The Almighty God, Yes Hu Ah..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eEFEYkeRm8
I am Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Charlie’s got a string of 30 thoroughbred racehorses. Not off on another one is he?
We demand to know their names!
Tallybhoy
09:10 on
4 October, 2013
Thoughts and prayers with you dad.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
22:05 on
3 October, 2013
quonno
Are you a current bun.?
A bit late getting back on this one.
At the risk of being facetious, I am not currently a bun or for that matter even a currant bun.
Mind you, some, accurately would describe me as being a wine grape.
I can assure you my Celtic credentials stand comparison with anyone’s.
Chairbhoy
21:41 on
3 October, 2013
Again a bit late catching up.
If only because he can be guaranteed to keep the unsavoury onside, McCoist is worth every penny of his salary to his paymasters.
Tallybhoy
09:10 on 4 October, 2013
I’m quite selfish and I dinnae pray for everyone, I dinnae bad feel about this. I’m definitely wrapped up in a Material World.
Yer auld fella, I’ll say a wee prayer.
And people think Madonna is high up the chain,lol. God could changed her heart in a heartbeat. Yes Madonna is the high priestess of so many interwoven secret societies.
And Celtic are still saying what Eminem Rapped.
ScottishLeaf
Interesting reading about the coaching techniques.
One more possible reason for a lack of Scottish footballers coming through is players not having fun playing football when they are young.
When I played in school we had 4-5 really good players who just passed it to each other while the rest of the team got bored…
hen1rik-Stuart Cosgrove was on John Beattie programme on Shortbread yesterday,reviewing current news stories,no football stuff.
scottishleaf@10.24
Your post saved me a lot of work this morning.
Your club is not alone nor is their approach novel. i was involved with a boy’s club in the 90s operating the same principles as yourselves with the same restrictions.
Some of the critics of SFA coaching and Scottish Youth coaching do so, I believe, from a position of ignorance, in the sense that they have never seen the entity they are criticising. Yes, they may have seen the product, adult footballers, and concluded falsely that the coaching MUST be at fault. A bit like tasting a sausage, not liking it, and concluding there must be horsemeat in it.
You were right to point out the draining cost of pitch and hall hire as councils are encouraged to treat their hire as a competitive tender, easy for pub teams to pay for but not so easy for dedicated youth. Also the time demands on coaches who have full-time jobs is unsustainable and, finally, I’d add, we have fewer ex-pros willing to do this activity if money is not involved.
In going on a train through Holland, I was struck by how many well kept pitches and small stadiums there were for local village teams, youth and adults to play on. There are, i believe, also more ex-football-playing experienced trained coaches at small club level who do not expect to get a job at a senior club after playing.
One further observation. All of this good work goes on at well run Youth Clubs who follow the SFA ethos and advice. There are many, outwith the SFA Development League and Semi-Pro set ups, who still operate the old fashioned way, starve them of the ball at training and shout at them through the matches like Fergie does. It is also harder at teenage level when the kids become a bit more rebellious, have other interests, or drift out of Boys Club football into adult clubs. My brother’s then team, aware that I had SFA badges asked if I could come and help with his amateur team, coached by an ex-pro and a good lad. I asked him about what they did now and discovered that they rarely ever had more than 2 balls available at training, as they needed to keep costs down, so it was the traditional physical warm up and then a full size game with one ball to keep everyone involved. I told him that, without a bag of balls so that everyone could do control touches drills, and basic cheap cones (again, derided on here) to break up the training area into different activities, i could do nothing for them.
Scottish football has gone through a period of producing poor footballers, despite, not because of the good coach education and advice available. The reasons for this are complex and not simplistic but you supplied some of them.
I need to go now but I will post later about the problems that would be associated with ssimply scrapping the youth set up and buying from others and also with the solution of sending outr youth to academies abroad.
Laters
TALLYBHOY
Fingers crossed for your oul’ fella. And yer Auntie,of course.
Mail sent-check yer junk!
You can be sure Sally’s alleged paycut at Nick Leeson FC will be deferred wages.
!!Bada Bing!!
11:01 on
4 October, 2013
‘You can be sure Sally’s alleged paycut at Nick Leeson FC will be deferred wages.’
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Maybe. There again maybe not.
He’s not in such a strong position to negotiate now.Formerly Charles and Craig needed him to keep the £££££ rolling in. Nowadays not so much.
You get the feeling the huns are starting to see him for what he is, a money grubbing, unprincipled, creep, who’ll say and do anything so long as he’s paid enough.
And it’s not as if he has, or is ever likely to have, another gig to go to.
scottishleaf 10:24
Very informative posting and I agree with your justified moan that a lot of scouts are ill qualified for their jobs. Big and strong is the criteria they work to. Unfortunately the sole qualification to be a scout is that you have played at a professional level: which, off course, is clearly wrong as showed by how few younsters we bring through. Eric Clark came away with that crap about being tall & strong to succeed: just like the Barca players
ernie lynch
11:09 on
4 October, 2013
It is his very compliancy that makes him so valuable to his bosses.
As for the Bears, a wee bit of the old clenched fist and a wee wink and nod from him on their unsavoury excesses will keep them happy.
ernie lynch
11:09 on 4 October, 2013
!!Bada Bing!!
11:01 on
4 October, 2013
‘You can be sure Sally’s alleged paycut at Nick Leeson FC will be deferred wages.’
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Maybe. There again maybe not.
He’s not in such a strong position to negotiate now.Formerly Charles and Craig needed him to keep the £££££ rolling in. Nowadays not so much.
You get the feeling the huns are starting to see him for what he is, a money grubbing, unprincipled, creep, who’ll say and do anything so long as he’s paid enough.
And it’s not as if he has, or is ever likely to have, another gig to go to.
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Haud on a wee minute Ernie…. Nah ;)))
They are eatin’ themselves because they have no Faith.
ernie my olde friend, enjoy Celtic getting to the last 16 again this season.
This Celtic side is looking exceptional, even though we lost our first 2 CL games.
BMCUWP
Hi Bobby,
I’m sorry i didn’t make the shindig on Saturday, a mixture of bottling it and getting into bad/good company in my local. It sounds like everybody had a fabulous day and congratulations to Minx 1888 and Hamilton Tim, what a special place CQN is! I’m glad you had a good break Bobby with your family and friends and i’ll definitely make it to the next Day Oot.
Tally Bhoy,
Very best wishes to your Dad, I hope he gets well very soon
Found this meaning of “tarrier” in the Urban Dictionary comes up first on a google search
one of the unwashed who frequents the piggery, commonly seen wearing the hoops and ginger hair.
theres that tarrier on his way tae the western ferry to go watch the fat midfielder
Who writes this stuff?
Yup, the fat boy had a use when Craigie, and Charles where at the helm, NOW. He is surplus to requirements, he used the Sevco fans the same as his previously employers did, and they can’t see that, eight hundred grand a year? Then takes a hit, and still getting four hundred grand + a year! for what? Beating fork lift drivers and hod carriers ( with respect) gimmi a break, he’ll slap it into them, any way that’s all smoke and mirrors , STILL NO ONE, to this day knows who owns..Ibrox, RIFC,Sevco, TRFC, Sevco Scotland, Murry Park ( still to be renamed) my money is on Craigie Boy and Ticketus, and I bet I am not far off.
SENGA
Hi,there. You missed a great day.
So did I,and I was there!
I’ll make sure yer copied in for the next one,you and yer pal. Start saving for January,that’s all I’m saying….
Adam on Skis
Western Press is corrupt, that says Eastern STARs have taken over and we are going into Tibet.
THEOSOPHICAL agenda, Brenda.
TONYDONNELLY67
I think you may be right,and from reading the post by BRT&H,so does he,I reckon.
The problem for the huns is that they don’t seem to care who owns it,just as long as they can be there. These sleepwalking tendencies are what effed them in the first place.
Canny ejikait pork,and who are we to try?
Bible Quick News in full flow this morning.
Rationalists beware!
BRTH
Fantastic(again) article on TSFM
Thank you
Hayley McQueen running rings round stuttering Sally on SSN….
Ernie-agree ,this will be his last managing gig.
BRTH
one of your best posts on TSFM !
It must be getting near the time for us to light the ceegarrs and sit back and watch the good ship sevco go under, in a fashion similar to the HMS hun did last year
Regarding the MSM, without even one single exception in Scotland. The sooner you all go under the better. I was listening to John Cleese yesterday on the radio explaining why an aged fellow like him was a fan of twitter. he explained that it was because he could tell folks what he was up to and publicise his shows etc without having to go through the press, who generally wrote snydey things about him
The MSMs days are numbered and its job to make sure they go quickly!
!!Bada Bing!!
11:01 on
4 October, 2013
You can be sure Sally’s alleged paycut at Nick Leeson FC will be deferred wages.
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Exactly the same as his last alleged one just before the IPO,
Then his advisors went back in with the bill and were given shares in lieu.
Ps good morning Petec :))
Till later all
@ night you hear, Bazookas r0@r.
The Brilliant 16 roads flippantly asked if I was TSD, wow what a brilliant pick me up… I am not at all clever, I wish I was as clever as The Smoke Detector, one thing that is ESSENTIAL is that Everyone is heard.
I read every TSD post, I bypass a few because I’m not allowed a phone @ my workplace. Yes draconian but blame the Christian values being eroded, right, left and centre.
Bobby Murdoch….
That is true, they don’t care who runs them as long as it stays opened, BUT! They also do not want to be told the truth, they where brought up on lies, and do not know any better, lies and secrets are what the do best, but alas…that horrible internet came in, drats.
@McNallyMirror: UEFA set date to review #Celtic skipper Scott Brown’s one-game for Barca red card. My hunch is they won’t extend it. http://t.co/4KltcBBR1Z
!!Bada Bing!!
Hayley McQueen running rings round stuttering Sally on SSN….
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Poor lassie – is she having to 10m circuits? :-)