PAUL REID reflects on a tumultuous two years as Academy Manager at Sunderland, including a record run of defeats, competing against the big guns and retaining Category One status against the odds.

THE Football Association has scrapped its system of specialist coaches, leading to Richard Kyle and Mikey Harris being made redundant.

LIVERPOOL Academy Manager Alex Inglethorpe takes TGG inside the club's Kirkby training centre and explains the principles that underpin one of the most successful youth programmes in English football.

BIRMINGHAM CITY have applied to move up to Category One Academy status for the 2021/22 season.

HAYDEN MULLINS has left Watford after four years to become assistant to Steve Ball at League Two Colchester United.

TOTTENHAM have appointed Trevor Birch as Director of Football Operations and given him a place on a new four-person ‘Football Board’.

PHILIPP JACOBSEN, Liverpool’s Medical Rehabilitation and Performance Manager, is leaving the club after little more than two years.

ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones and England Women’s goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were among the superb speakers at TGG’s The Future Game webinar on Wednesday.

SWANSEA CITY have downgraded their Academy to Category Two status after four years in the top tier.

ARSENAL have announced that Carlos Cuesta, Andreas Georgson and Miguel Molina are joining the club as assistants to Head Coach Mikel Arteta.

FORMER West Ham assistant Enzo Maresca has been appointed Under-23s boss at Manchester City.

ANTHONY BARRY has been appointed first-team coach at Chelsea after three years with Wigan Athletic.