The grass is greener on the 3G side for community football
Last night the Kent FA Women’s Cup Final was held at Maidstone United’s Gallagher stadium.Gillingham Ladies won the cup for a third successive year beating Charlton Athletic Women’s Reserves 3-0 and I...
View ArticleFA Skills programme hits 6 million mark
I was delighted to join the Secretary of State Sajid Javid and his counterpart at the Department for Education Nicky Morgan in New Palace Yard last week to celebrate the landmark six millionth place on...
View ArticleA Game of Two Halves – One Hundred Years Apart
Did you see any of the game on BBC2 ? I was lucky enough to be there – one of the 45,000 or so packed into Wembley to watch England go down 0-3 to Germany. A fair result? Probably. Disappointing?...
View ArticleFootball Remembers
Virginia Crompton, Executive Producer British Council with England Manager Roy Hodgeson “Here we were, laughing and chatting to men who only a few hours before we were trying to kill! Some of our men...
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