SPORTING DIRECTOR Stuart Webber has continued his whirlwind start to life at Norwich City by releasing seven players and holding informal talks with Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill.

NORWICH’S new sporting director, Stuart Webber, has appointed heads of UK and European scouting as part of his revamp of the club’s recruitment.

Joe Roach, Bournemouth’s long-serving Academy manager and head of coaching, is to leave the club at the end of June for personal reasons.

DAVE PARNABY, who is retiring at the end of the season after 20 years as Middlesbrough’s academy director, says youth football has become too ‘formalised’ and lost the art of play.

NEW ZEALAND mental skills coach Gilbert Enoka has given an insight into how to think like an All Black.

STEVEN GERRARD vowed to switch the focus away from “showboating” and “lollipops” as he was unveiled as Liverpool’s new Under-18s manager today.

On the face of it, New Zealand Technical Director is a thankless job: the country is rugby obsessed, its top players play thousands of miles away, and only half a World Cup place is available every four years. Andreas Heraf describes it as a “great gift” though.

SAO PAULO assistant Michael Beale says English football has suffered because of a focus on developing teams instead of individuals at youth level.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the film Flubber. Dr Carmel Majidi, of Carnegie Mellon University, is our latter-day Professor Brainard.

LIVERPOOL’S Andy O’Boyle has been appointed as the new Head of Elite Performance at the Premier League.

The collapse of Notts County Ladies, an established FA Women’s Super League club with four current England internationals and an FA Cup final appearance in 2015, has revived the question of whether professional women’s football is viable in the UK.

ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones says he wants to make training "85% unstructured" because his players are not capable of thinking for themselves.