PREMIER LEAGUE backroom staff have been put on alert over a new Twitter account that monitors their activity in the Fantasy Premier League game.

LEWIS DICKMAN has been promoted to Academy Manager at Sunderland, with Stuart English joining from Birmingham City as Head of Coaching and Leann Cowperthwaite stepping up to become Head of Academy Operations.

RECOVERY is more important now than ever, because unprecedented fixture congestion is leaving so little time between matches. In this event, expert practitioners from elite clubs will be telling you how they monitor recovery and about the methods and tools they use to promote it.

INTRODUCING an energy gel strategy was a key focus for England's performance team at the 2019 Women's World Cup. As Lead Nutritionist Chris Rosimus explains, it was a creative, collaborative and sometimes controversial process.

ASTON VILLA manager Dean Smith says the club believe in two-way learning, where the coaches gain knowledge from the players as well as vice versa.

KATE BAKER, the Head of Performance Insight at the Football Association, has left the organisation after three years to become Director of Performance at UK Sport.

FOLLOWING Scott Sellars' promotion to Technical Director at the start of this year, Jonathan Hunter-Barrett and Laura Nicholls have taken over the day-to-day running of the club's Category One Academy. They told TGG how they've been getting on.

A PLAYER'S position only tells us so much about them - as a comparison of Roberto Firmino and Robert Lewandowski shows. Paul Power of Stats Perform explains how we can carry out some more sophisticated analysis of a player.

RADHI JAIDI has left Southampton after more than a decade to become assistant manager at Belgian side Cercle Brugge.

LEADING neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart says football should be “ashamed” of its management of head injuries following the English game’s first concussion substitution on Tuesday.

FILIPPO GIRALDI has admitted that Watford “are not a club that leaves the coach alone and lets him get on with the job” in his first interview since leaving his job as Technical Director at Vicarage Road.

AZ ALKMAAR Sport Development Director Marijn Beuker outlines how the club outperform their budget by thinking differently.