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@Secretgrassroo2

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@Secretgrassroo2
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7 months
3 coaches on the sidelines today for an 8s match. All jumping around and berating the ref. Initials on tracksuits too. Grow up
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3 years
When your U7s go 1-0 down and the parents want answers
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2 years
Semi pro ballers who play Step 6 thanking Nike or Adidas for their new boots that they paid for. Very poorly behaviour.
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2 years
Lads playing step 7 in the football pyramid putting out statements about leaving. Just text the 6 supporters.
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
A coach has sent me this. My head has gone 😡
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
“My son plays CAM not at right back”.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
If you are screaming at a referee during a kids match you are unwell.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Parents, please stop kidding yourselves. £65 a month doesn’t mean your kid is an academy player.
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3 years
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
1 year
It’s that time of year, tournament season. Grown men kicking off because they didn’t win a £12 trophy, Facebook rants, Mums throwing punches, kids crying, a volunteer getting abused after miscalculating GD and burger vans selling horse meat. Netflix, get the cameras 🎥 ready.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Gentlemen wearing a professional clubs tracksuit jacket spoke to me last night during the session. I return home and had 2 texts of parents asking what he wanted and was he a scout. He was not a scout and was asking where the toilet was. Parents, calm down 🤚🏻
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Lots of parents kicking off about matches being called off. Just enjoy the rest, go for a walk, have a family day out. Just because your brainless 1-1 coach is still out there breaking ankles doesn’t mean the pitch is playable. #grassroots
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Top tips for coaches that are so desperate to win a trophy with their under 8. 1. Buy a trophy 2. Grow up
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
YOUR KID HAS NOT SIGNED FOR AN ACADEMY IF YOU PAY FOR IT #facts
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Grown men asking for high level U6s players 😳
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Dads when they’ve just shouted at a 14 year old referee.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Parents who help out the least usually have the most to say. #grassrootsfootball
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Secret grassroots coach
1 month
Parent again kicking off last night and saying the kids should be doing more fitness work. Mum is a big unit and if she found a chip in her windscreen she’d try and eat it. #grassroots #football #boring
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Kids leaving brilliant grassroots clubs to join an academy that’s not an academy and their pathway is to play pro for a club that’s not professional. Confused yet?
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
This is brilliant #grassroots
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Those parents that praise other kids and not just their own are the parents you need 🙏
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
9 months
This is vile. Who actually buys this shit. #scum #dontbuythesun
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Secret grassroots coach
4 months
Teenage lads training at step 6 clubs but never played a minute, doing £40 1-1s scanning a mannequin and all paid for by their mums. They love a post ‘Looking for a Step 1 or 2 club” I’m looking for Katy Perry or Kylie Minogue, it ain’t happening This nonsense needs to stop
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
7 months
Chasing subs again, £28 a month and Botox face won’t pay in full because we had a match called off for a waterlogged pitch. Parents 🙄
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
2 years
-6 degrees tomorrow in some places and leagues, clubs and coaches are receiving abuse for calling matches off. WOW
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Good morning everybody👍🏻 Apart from those parents making a 2 hour trip so your kid can play 30 minutes for a development centre on a farmers field when you could play for a decent grassroots club 2 minutes away. 😳
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
😢
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
When you’ve paid £30 for your kids 1-1 and the coach turns up in Lonsdale trainers.
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Good morning everybody, apart from those dickheads that enter high level teams into low level tournaments just to win trophies.
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@Secretgrassroo2
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1 month
£200 pumped into her lips £100 a week on coke £100 a month on sunbeds £50 to get her nails done But ask Bingo Wing Mum for the £30 monthly subs and we are out of order #grassrootsfootball
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
1 year
Got a Mum that looks like Ultimate Warrior kicking off this morning because we’ve put her kid in defence. #grassroots
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Parents running kids instagram accounts, can’t wait for the quotes today -hard work starts now -New year, new me - Big challenge - Part of the process - Thanks to my teammates (who won’t read this) -let’s go
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
28 days
Is it time the FA stepped in and started to put an end to these fake academies?
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
When you only had 5 turn up to training last week, but this week you tell the parents a scout is attending. #grassrootsfootball
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Got to love a drunk parent telling you how to coach on a Sunday morning 👍🏻
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2 years
Parent came over tonight after training, we naively thought he was helping with equipment. He just moaned about the session and Saturdays match. Thanks 👍🏻
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Big shoutout to those coaches doing their best to keep the kids active via zoom classes 🙌🏻
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
-Parents storming out of presentation evenings -clubs making sure everyone gets a trophy. A generation that’s never been told “no” Grow up #grassrootsfootball
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
“MY SON PLAYS A YEAR UP!”
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
A call from a coach yesterday, had to fold his side as he’s lost 5 players to a fake academy. He’s UEFA B qualified The fake academy level 1. Makes sense
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Until coaches & parents understand that results are irrelevant for kids, we will stay in this mess.
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Secret grassroots coach
5 months
Lads in step 6 posting statements thanking fans on social media as they move on to their next challenge. Just text the 13 supporters lads.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Noticed a lot of academies have released players the last few weeks, it happens. But some parents saying “we don’t want to drop down back to grassroots!.” Get over yourselves
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Secret grassroots coach
4 months
Lots of grown men changing their Facebook profile pic to a photo of them lifting a trophy from the weekend. Well done you Tournament season, you all ready for it? Parents scrapping, kids crying and coaches just being absolute belters. I for one can’t wait. #grassroots
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Don’t judge a coach on kids getting scouted or trophies, judge them on how many kids turn up to their sessions. 😉
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Grassroots football is back, which means Facebook is full of coaches asking for high level 5 year olds with experience 🙄
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Secret grassroots coach
4 months
Grown men dropping to their knees and crying after winning a kids tournament. You ok? 🥇
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
5 months
Still can’t get my head around parents that allow a coach to scream, shout and talk to their kids like dirt all in the effort to win a kids football match.
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Obsession with playing a year up. Kids of the 90s played on the streets with kids 3/4/5 years older. Bore off with it now.
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Loads of grassroots clubs had their awards presentation over the weekend. Hearing loads of horror stories, parents kicking off, kids crying and parents storming out. A generation that’s never been told ‘no’, this is what happens.
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Good morning to those top grassroots clubs and coaches that don’t sell a dream and are all about the development. 👍🏻
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Parents chucking £120 a month at 1-1s, but can’t pay their grassroots clubs subs. 😐🤭
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Imagine returning to training tonight and the unfit coach has you doing a bleep test. Tell me again why you struggle to retain players? 🤔
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4 months
Lads at Step 4 saying “do you want my agents number?”
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Spot on
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
When your kid is playing right back but you’ve explained to the coach your high level 6 year old plays cam.
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Secret grassroots coach
1 year
At our club last night we’ve had to fold a team. 6 players have left to join a grassroots team calling itself an academy. Our excellent UEFA B coach is distraught. The coach for this ‘academy’ side has just completed his level 1 and apparently just has them running laps.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Elite 1-1 session for £30
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Secret grassroots coach
11 months
Yesterday match U10s 3 coaches running and bouncing on the sidelines like demented Hyenas. All 3 desperate for the win. Just grow up.
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@Secretgrassroo2
Secret grassroots coach
2 years
These oddballs with Instagram accounts for their kids are now wishing themselves Happy Fathers Day from the account.
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2 years
Parents outside the Astro watching a U7s elite match
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Imagine being a grown man and shouting at a teenage referee! Grow up
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2 years
Fair play to all those young kids reffing matches this weekend, they shouldn’t have to put up with the abuse they get. 🙌🏻 #grassrootsfootball
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Coached a player for a couple of years. Improved a lot, so last month made a call to academy coach (not some pretend scout). Spoke to parent, child and coach about the pros & cons. Kid has gone in, impressed and will probably sign. Nothing on social media. Simple
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4 months
When parents say “he wasn’t released by the academy, he quit so he could go back to playing with his mates.” #grassroots #lies
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Why are people abusing referees at kids football matches? Are you lot wired up right?
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Parents should take training once a season and deal with matchday to understand how hard it is.
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Secret grassroots coach
6 months
Getting a parent to run the line 🚩
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2 years
Don’t call matches off at any level
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
When the scout says he can get your kid a trial at a pro club
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Secret grassroots coach
9 months
Some of you are wasting £40 an hour on a 1-1 session that’s actually holding your kid back. Coach has been nowhere near the professional game Coach has basic coaching badge Unopposed No decision making Ladders Brainless
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Big shoutout to those coaches running proper holiday football camps. Kids playing, good pricing that’s cheaper than childcare and just fun. Quality work 🙌🏻
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
£100 million for Grealish. To put that into context it’s a 6 week summer camp in Macclesfield 😉
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Bleep test at training, are you ok? Seriously? 😂😂😂😂
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Imagine doing this at training. Can see it now, UEFA B dads pulling their faces, too much fun, why are they not doing laps?
@EURO2024
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🇲🇰 North Macedonia training, cone race edition 😀 @ffmmkd | #EURO2020
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Adults fighting at kids matches, grow up.
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3 years
Deluded parents pumping money into development centres, cheers for the cash, paid for the real academies kit and Christmas party. When will this foolishness stop? Stay at a decent grassroots club, stop following the badge. #desperation
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Grown men shouting at kids, what is wrong with you?
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4 years
Trials at grassroots clubs. Trial the coaches instead and watch them shit themselves.
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Big shoutout to the coaches, clubs and players who followed guidelines and are back now. #patience 😉👍🏻
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4 years
Academies in grassroots leagues are grassroots clubs.
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3 years
Brilliant grassroots teams folding because parents want the status of having a kid at an academy. A development centre is not an academy. £60 odd quid a month, really?
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Secret grassroots coach
3 years
Parents standing on the pitch during training or matches, just stand back you brainless pricks. #grassroots
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3 years
Strange how the fake academies don’t release players 💰
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4 years
Seen a post yesterday on a local grassroots page. Accomplished GK wanted........6 years old. Message for a trial 😳
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Parent of a kid who has the energy of an asthmatic sloth has complained that training isn’t intense enough. If her kid had a heat map on him at training it would look like the Japanese flag 🇯🇵 #grassroots
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Parent who’s kid hasn’t attended the last 3 training sessions is now kicking off because training is off tonight.
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Secret grassroots coach
3 months
If your kid doesn’t support the football club you do, you’ve failed as a parent. Agree?
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Secret grassroots coach
1 year
Some of these 1-1 sessions are getting silly now. Young lad straight out of college with a BTEC in sport and leisure, got bored mopping floors at the local pool so now he’s charging £40 to tell your kid to ‘SCAN’ This has to be banter. Unopposed rubbish.
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
So I’ve just received this in the inbox
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2 years
Kids not playing football all weekend, ridiculous really. #grassrootsfootball
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4 months
Few posts this morning about kids looking for new clubs Awards nights season,what a time to be alive Lil man didn’t win player of the season and mum is fuming Titanic turns quicker but UEFA B Mum ain’t having it,new club. Kid changes club almost as much as his mum changes men
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4 years
These coaches still doing sessions, parents, next time you drop your kid off with them just remember if they bend the rules now they’ll probably do it for other things too.
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4 years
I see the new craze for desperate parents is making up running times. “He’s just done a 15 minute 5K” What, on his bike?
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Secret grassroots coach
4 years
Parents who slag off coaches in WhatsApp groups are usually traffic wardens and were milk monitors at school.
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Secret grassroots coach
2 years
Can’t get my head around adults kicking off at kids football matches. Pathetic
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5 months
U5s tournaments This is a wind up, right? You lot are unwell
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