NOW seemed a good time to showcase the women who are playing leading roles in the men's game, in roles spanning executive, coaching, Academy, performance, medical and data science.

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY club doctor Richard Higgins has bowed out after 26 years’ service.

ASSISTANT Manager Andrew Sparkes and Director of Player Development Eddie Niedzwiecki have been made redundant by Reading as part of ongoing cost-cutting by the club.

NEW Manchester City Academy Director Thomas Krucken says his job is to develop the ‘player of the future.’ The German succeeded Jason Wilcox as City’s Academy boss in August last year, having previously been Stuttgart's Head of Youth Development.

BELGIUM'S Union Saint-Gilloise have marked themselves out as one of the smartest and most innovative clubs in Europe. In Episode #59 of the TGG Podcast, their Sporting Director, Chris O'Loughlin, gave insights into how they are managing to upset the established order.

R is a statistics-specific programming language that is excellent for data cleaning, manipulation and visualisations. In our R Masterclass, on Tuesday February 13th, Harsh Krishna will introduce you to R and RStudio (the interface for writing R code) and explain how they can be used with football event data.

NEWCASTLE UNITED Head Physio Danny Murphy has left the club after 15 months.

HELENA COSTA, English football’s first and only female Head of Recruitment, has left Watford after less than a year.

UNION SAINT-GILLOISE are one of the smartest teams in Europe and their culture is a big reason why. Sporting Director Chris O'Loughlin tells TGG how the club scout for character.

NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO has taken a quartet of familiar faces with him to Nottingham Forest - but not long-time assistant Ian Cathro.

CLAIRE-MARIE ROBERTS has left the Premier League after almost nine years to take up the new position of Performance Director at Coventry City.

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