Steve Sallis - Author/Speaker of Leadership @uefa
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Best Selling Author x 2 📚 CEO - Was Bad Footballer @officialbhafc Former Teacher/Vice-Principal/Lecturer for 20 Yrs- Now Helper for Elite People @uefa & beyond
London, Brighton, Anywhere
Joined August 2009
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People SEE 👀 … people DO… model the behaviours you want to see ….
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The hiring and firing that goes on in professional football is genuinely out of control. Not Coventry City Football Club however… . Schools take 3-5 years for genuine sustained systemic change. Football clubs are not even giving football managers 3-5 months. Change the
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Education. Makes the world go round.
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Maybe some Headteachers will stop taking their pupils out of PE lessons a little more! Bloody awesome… there are other subjects than the traditional academic you know! @EmmaRaducanu absolute hero 🙌🏻❤️
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Heard today a professional football club released 13 under 16’s. how on earth can you “hand pick” every player. & get it wrong 13 times. in a school you get 2000 who you don’t choose & have to add value. No choice. football seems to still have serious self-awareness issues 👎⚽️.
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This is me and Jamal Musiala . I bored him so much he chose Germany . Apologies ❤️⚽️❤️
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#football clubs still in the stone ages … got to have played pro for 3 years to be a cat 2 U18’s coach. When will they/the game learn …
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All those people battering Steve Bruce … he’s been involved in nearly 2000 professional matches as player and manager. 1) show some respect 2) keep playing championship manager in your bedroom ❤️🙌🏻⚽️ #NEWTOT #NewcastleUnited
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Thomas Frank⚽️⚽️⚽️. Leader ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️. Present ✅.Personable ✅.Protective ✅ .Passionate ✅. @BrentfordFC Football Club is has been a pleasure supporting you these last few months . Some unreal people in the building . Gruff Parsons .Stephen Torpey .Ben Ryan . Thank
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Been saying it for years … you learn maths at 14 it’s too late … the EPPP has done one thing … experts at u9. Makes every difference technically in years to come. Don’t forget . The game has moved on. Early technicians more important than ever before for top.Level ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
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College FOOTBALL… I repeat … this is uni NFL… madness ….
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Players won’t let you care about them… until they know that you care … People ask why I do what I do. Simple answer. Love, friendships, connections and energy ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
🧠 @stevensallis provides a bit of inspiration for @DMebude ahead of the big game! #AFCW @ProSportsImages
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This is what you do when you’re really bored and feel like educating youngsters.Enclosed is a 34 sec transcript of the reality of football at a decent level! I wonder if kids see this part of the game!Nice to actually see it happens at many levels! @soccerdoctor_uk @msceducation
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If you think there is something wrong with this there is something wrong with you . Well said sir ❤️⚽️❤️.
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How many times have I said this ! @jimmycarr you fancy a job?? Cheers for @bencove for sharing ❤️🙌🏻❤️🙋🏻♂️ #education - Some societal beliefs and truths are miles off it. School is important of course. But if you judge a 🐠 by it’s ability to climb a 🌳 … we know the outcome !
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Released at 16 by another club . came to us at @MillwallFC . best attitude ever, open, honest, gritty, great listener . now playing Scottish prem on @SkyFootball @ScotlandSky . doesn’t get prouder @DannyMcNamara32 ❤️⚽️👍
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Blown away . @SpursOfficial . A masterclass in language and delivery …. Genuinely don’t think I have ever been a room where someone has created the level of clarity than he just did. And I’ve sat in a lot of football and leadership rooms! . @UEFAcom pro licence day 3 . Ange
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RIP my grandad ! A day before your 97th birthday. A true and genuine British legend ❤️🙏
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Well done @CAFCofficial ⚽️… 541 … defended brilliantly. Wide centre halves stepping into midfield to press. Game plan perfection. Brighton … my club but zero penetration. No balls in behind. It’s an invasion game lads not always possession. Well done Charlton. Deserved ❤️🙌🏻⚽️
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I got taught at 16 to stand still by Martin Hinshelwood playing centre midfield. I looked at him like he was mad. He was right as he always was. Ball moves .Players move . You stand still = there is your space ❤️❤️❤️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚.
Best thing Paul has said whilst being a pundit 💯. His thoughts on the midfield cluster fk that is Bruno and why our midfield gets ran over constantly , digs Rashford out too👏.
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Please retweet this video footage + catch this man stealing my friends little boys bike in #bexley #kent Appreciated! http://t.co/boVDITGwSj.
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Can I remind people. It’s still 11v11. Forget the formation . ✅Run around (a lot).✅win your duals .✅pass to your teammate .✅move somewhere .✅1st and 2nd balls .✅get your distances right .✅defend set pieces .✅concentrate a lot.
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Youngsters. Non league players. Pros. Take note … - there is always a reason … ❤️⚽️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙌🏻.
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In my new book I call this the 99% effect. So many leaders. no clue. Tip: Remind yourself what they (your staff) do . do. not lambast for the 1% they don’t do. #mindset #solutionsmindset #educatingfootball.
This is elite leadership. I thought Mane let himself & the manager down last night but when Klopp puts it like this, it’s very hard to argue against. Liverpool are lucky to have Klopp.
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In the last three years I’ve contacted 7 football league managers to offer support that have all failed to return a simple text. All have been sacked within 12 months. And all not got another job in football. Maybe there is a message in there somewhere ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
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If anyone can put me in touch with either of these two please retweet. I’ll offer free mentoring to the young lad. And a job to the doorman who is a life changer . PLEASE RETWEET ❤️🙌🏻 @ScarcityStudios.
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More evidence … conference south/north to @EFL league one… no difference between teams. Someone said recently I was being ridiculous. The levels are as close as can be. The non league game 2022 = better pitches, coaches, players than ever before @EUFCofficial ❤️ @ITVSport
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Happy new year friends, colleagues, followers, family…after many many ups and a few downs this year. I am grateful for everything. The world is need of love not hate - if you’re a hater? Change yourself! Best advice I can give anyone! The world is a tiny place. Don’t be a mug❤️
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Genuine reminders about the journey . 1) Keep perspective please people . 2) Stay in the now if you can . 3) Be grateful to breathe everyday . 4) Enjoy small moments . 5) If you’re in football enjoy the wins but know you’re gonna lose way more so stay grounded . Incredible.
"Our goalkeeping coach woke up one morning and his wife didn't wake up". Northampton boss Jon Brady was close to tears after securing promotion to League One ❤️
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Would like to remind people how real footballers are. I’ve had fifteen 121’s with premier league and champ players in last 21 days and all just normal men doing their best to perform. Some of the abuse they receive is wrong. Some of the pressure they feel is the same as us. ❤️🙌🏻
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A MUST WATCH ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️. Great knowledge never changes ….YOUTH Football coaches… What is more important for players you coach… to PROVE YOURSELF? Or IMPROVE YOURSELF? 👨🏻🎓🧠🧠🧐🧐🧐🧐
A documentary about Ajax Academy from way back in the 90s. And yet still I could argue everyday with someone about prioritising technical development over all else at youth level
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Adults … stop calling your child a “baller for” (pro club) and have an Instagram attached! 1) it’s weird 2) remember they are 12. ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
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Yep - the amount of entitled footballers out there is alarming . I’m just grateful the ones who choose my 121’s get it ! 🎙️ Miroslav Klose: "I said stop playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought
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I’m 43 and never really loved nightclubs at 23. post lockdown . I’ve decided . I’m going clubbing every weekend . Dig in people . we are nearly there ❤️🙌🏻⚽️🙏🏻🍺 💃.
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Football COACHES…the REALITY…teach your kids about what world class really looks like…the best player in the world making a recovery run like his life depends on it. It’s not all skills and thrills … facts are… RUN WHICH AIN’T ALWAYS FUN #soccer #futbol #football #education
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Thank you to all the #Millwall family! Great people, great club! A life changing experience! @MFC_Academy @MillwallFC ❤️️👍⚽️🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
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@JosephVines Elite feeling except for the weirdo teacher (80/20) who will never get it . There extra hour or a lifetime of school football memories.
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Reminders . This lad playing his football in the isthmian premier league 2 years ago. (5 divisions below). There is talent in non league everywhere …. Football ignorance helps no one . Well done lad ❤️.
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People . at home? . 40 free online fully funded courses here ! Please share ! England Scotland residents 🏴 🏴 .Help People out . press a button. Communities need to come together ❤️⚽️👍 @PeterPrickett @LaurieMcGinley1 @grpat @Swaggarlicious_
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Thank you to the shoe army @ntfc for the turn out today. Just getting on the train home. Fans getting off saying thankyou … no no no. Thankyou ❤️❤️. Secondly … The amount of fans that turned up in the rain, 6 hours after the result. I’m personally truly humbled and can say for
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There have been a lot of players released from professional clubs this week, so my thoughts go out to you all. I am offering a free service to all players & parents that need support! The FUTURE IS BRIGHT. Don’t let this minor setback STOP YOU! @LFEonline
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Thankyou to David Moyes and @WestHam . He delivered after me… UEFA pro licence 🏴🏴🏴. 10 years ago I walking down school corridors getting chips lobbed at my head …. Moral of the story . Be obsessed with IMPROVING . Not always PROVING. David’s message though . WIN
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RIP Christian. Ridiculously humble, articulate, thoughtful, engaging, sincere man. Brought football mentality to a new level. Gritty, polite and likeable ❤️❤️❤️ #Millwall
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Youngsters - I appreciate you’re desperate for success. Like most of us in our 40’s. So were we. I can relate - STAY PATIENT - It’s taken me 27 years to get emails like this. Prove or improve ??? … IMPROVE ALL DAY LONG ❤️⚽️🙌🏻 #leadership #football #soccer #futbol
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If you are involved at any level of professional football and you don’t ask what @BrentfordFC do as their business model then you’re an idiot. Phenomenal #Strategy. #People. #Execution. So many things other clubs don’t do. Never have done. ❤️🙌🏻⚽️
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FOOTBALL LEADERS THAT STILL DONT/won’t LISTEN…. Self-Awareness 🚌. You snooze you LOSE…. #education #leadership #football #management #mindset #listen
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I’ve come from being a teacher into pro football and the sense of entitlement from footballers is alarming. Can I remind you all. A) never ever forget where you came from b) you are a human being like everyone else ❤️🙌🏻⚽️. Read some self-awareness books . You’ll need these fans.
BREAKING: Leeds players issue message to supporters apologising for performance in yesterday's 4-1 defeat at Bournemouth.
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I get asked a lot - how did you get where you got to. My dad taught me as a 4 yr old:. “Son, every person you meet:. 1) look them in the eye .2) shake their hand .3) ask them how they are”. If I didn’t do he’d pull me everytime. Happy birthday to the man of brilliant basics ❤️
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“We not me” personified - used you as an example to 4 academy footballers that I mentor this week! @JHenderson 🦁🦁🦁❤️🙌🏻⚽️#leader.
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Do you have children ?. Are you spending money on their brain?. Their thoughts, feelings and emotions …. Or going through the parental motion? . ❤️❤️❤️
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7 years ago today . I was a linesman. for a school game in south east london. the job no one wants to do. the rest is history . #educatingfootball
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I watch @SkySportsNews @SkySports @SkyFootball everyday. However some genuine feedback. (From a teacher) This is the least thought out article you’ve ever done. A reminder to the leadership of @SkySports … this isn’t ethical. Please read up on child development before such posts.
🗣️ "To be the best football player in the world." . 7-year-old #LFC Academy player Arat Hosseini is being called the next Lionel Messi 👀👇
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Growth Mindset . = . SUCCESS . Well done Boyo @EbereEze10 . #EducatingFootball. Known this boy since he was 12. So so humble . And he’s features on the front cover of “Educating Football” where he shares our journey together. Can be purchased here 👇🏻👇🏻.
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Players not getting signed because they can’t play in a 442 for the manager the change the formation a week later anyway. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬🤬 does my head in that this still goes on. #football #leadership #soccer #futbol #education
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⚽️ ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️. So this week I’ve had 100 calls from friends feeling very low about non acceptance of a course they are desperate to get on ❌❌❌❌❌. This isn’t a tweet to antagonise this is a tweet to educate.📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚. So the word “inclusion”🙏. Are the @FA
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Don’t judge anyone until.You walk a mile in their shoes …. @dele_official you should be proud of yourself. @GNev2 - well done for the authenticity . @dele_official you will change many lives with what you have just done and will continue to do . #educatingfootball ❤️⚽️🙌🏻
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The false dream everyone . A good education will get you further than a good first touch.
Staggering stats. 97% of former cat 1 academy players now aged 21 to 26 never made an EPL appearance. 70% weren't handed a pro contract at an EPL or EFL club. And only 1 in 10 went on to make more than 20 league appearances in the top four tiers of English football.
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Football Culture is finally CHANGING! Well done Erik ten Hag and @ManUtd !! Arteta and @Arsenal well done. Culture is culture … Every behaviour needs a consequence …#leadership #culture #education #coaching #soccer #football ❤️🙌🏻⚽️
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COACHES … . Are you actually Holistic?. SCHOOL FOOTBALL?. Who cares about school football? . Well you should… . Effective Youth development journeys are paramount to our players futures on and off the field. ZOOM OUT. Stop zooming in. #education .
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Humbled isn’t the word. wow . what an experience discussing. people, life, education, football, emotional intelligence, coaching, teaching . thank you @mrjakehumphrey . skilled, genuine, articulate, and normal! What celebs should be ! Class act . Forever grateful ❤️👍⚽️
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This is 1 of the most powerful bits of footage I have ever seen.Why?Leaders in general keep talking about football football football. Not people. Look up “flat hierarchies” in leadership. It Might stop managers saying “my team”. Reminder. they ain’t you’re fucking team! Use “Our”.
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May 2024 . 🤡✌️🤌🏼🗣️🛎️👁️📕. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚. #leadership.#wenotme.#education.#leader.#leaderdickheads.#processoroutcome
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Distances . Most under coached process in modern game.
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.@QPR well done - changing the narrative.
Earlier this week… 18 year-old QPR U21 baller Jake Leahy picked up his A Level results. 📚. He’s been studying alongside being a professional footballer for the past 2 years… Achieving an A* in business 👏🏼. He’s been doing it as a fall back option if football doesn’t work out…
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Managers that shout are half the time shouting at themselves. It’s British culture sent down through generations. The millennials arnt having it and generation z definitely arnt having it. Teachers & Coaches…change the narrative. Old school behaviours won’t work for a modern 🌎.
“Shouting is a resource for people who have no other way. The more you shout, the less players listen.”. Javi Gracia (2019).
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That’s the best @MillwallFC performance I’ve seen in years. Completely and utterly dominated from start to finish. Great football. Biting in midfield. Measured play. Committed players. Proud to see @billymitchell_8 and @DannyMcNamara32 play so well. Saves clubs fortunes. ❤️🙌🏻.
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@moneill31 @CliveTyldesley @itvfootball @GlobalPlayer Clive you’re the best. Those 🛎️ ends and @ITVSport . Nooooo clue.
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Best two minutes you’ll watch all day. The thing about Bayzo is… sees the bigger picture when sadly many don’t. A complete one off. Class class act. ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
👐 He's helped Aaron Ramsdale and worked with Willy Caballero, but recently #Bayzo passed on his knowledge to our talented crop of @AFCWAcademy goalies - with the second edition of his Goalkeeper Day. Watch all the fun and some amazing saves! >> #AFCW 🥅
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My book “Educating Football” is out this summer. Chapter 20 is about the process. just like England! Please make contact for an early purchase 🦁🦁🦁⚽️👍❤️❤️ @solutionsmindse @soccerdoctor_uk
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Just to reiterate … polite reminders. If you’ve got the quals … act like it. If you’re unsure what “x factor” teaching looks like. Get in a school. Zoom out of the football bubble. See what is going on in other places/educational environments. Be open. Change the game ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
. @stevensallis explains the moment he nearly cried 😢 when Millwall released 8 out of 9 U16s. When releasing players how often do staff look at themselves when a player doesn’t make the level? . Steve asks the question of staff… maybe you are (staff) not good enough?
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Been a great week in meetings with colleagues, agents and national media promoting the book. It’s finally here. Emotional intelligence is a lost art to many in life and football. Correct values & believe in law of attraction. For puchases please go to
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“Just logic” … how good is this … pure and simple … less is more… brilliant basics… zooming out … #leadership.
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Can’t think of many clubs where two first team players get on a zoom call with academy parents to share their experiences and support! Hope it helped the patents reflect. Thank you @AlexWoodyard1 and @DariusCharles00 - two proper humans ❤️🙌🏻⚽️@AFCWimbledon @AFCWAcademy
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Thank you fans. 12th man ❤️🙌🏻⚽️.
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@emilyhewertson Yes terrible. They will have to cope like 94% of kids in the Uk . If more parents believed in the system we’d all benefit.
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Football loves a fad . When did the “6” (centre half) . Become a centre mid ?. It’s a “4” . It will always be a four
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How does one hide their pride …. From the streets to the stadiums. ENGLAND DEBUT . The John Roan School in Greenwich …. One of your own ❤️🙌🏻⚽️. @EbereEze10
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@teachwellall Adjust OFSTED. This will ripple into calmer methodical leaders. Instead of the panic that happens in most places.
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If you disagree you’re mad. Top tackle.
Some may say it is a brilliant, perfectly timed tackle, others may disagree. What do you think?. Credit: 🎥 Rhys Carson Eden Keeble
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I’ve been saying for years. We are 25 years into the foreign influx in the premier league … therefore league 1 to conf south/north is the closest level it’s ever been! REASONS: better coaching/ pitches / = larger numbers of better players - well done @BOREHAM_WOODFC.
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Youth academy #football? School games or no school games? Busy school teachers wanting to win at all costs or caring about the social science? Pro clubs saying they are holistic but not caring about school? What’s ur view? Start academies at 13 or too late? #education #debate ❤️
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Wonderful to see former Millwall youngster Sam Edozie make his debut for @ManCity today. Loved his dad walking into one meeting demanding he still play rugby. Different sports provide so many opportunities to learn physical and mental skills that cross over. ❤️🙌🏻⚽️
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Why we love sport. The people. The connections. The friendships. The arguments. The making up. The winning together. The losing together. The growing together . The emotions . 🙌🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
This is AMAZING 🤩….We. Are. All. Human 🙌🏽. Pep’s respect for Sergio is unreal….
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Fine lines at the den today @MillwallFC . Hit the post 3 times . Lost to a random corner .Great free kick and .Spawny deflected cross . Must say well done @WatfordFC fans for classy Sarkic banner . Sad day for the family. ❤️❤️
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Incredible experience…50,000 fans for a league cup game. Seeing many old friends as Arsenal fans was brilliant. Ex-pupil running the line …ever happened before? Lads & 8,000 travelling fans did us proud. Footballs a game for the people. Never forget it ❤️🙌🏻⚽️ #educatingfootball
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Thats right…the list of candidates was probably 80. Halved in 24 hours. Shortlisted to 6. Interviews. Second interviews. Maybe even 3rd. The board agree “he’s the man” - 2 months later - “he’s not the man” ADVICE - look at yourselves. Shit leadership whatever way you look at it.
#SaintsFC has parted company with Men’s First Team Manager Nathan Jones.
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