Sellars promoted to Head of Academy Player Development at Wolves

After seven years, it was time for a rebrand and a new website. This site will now be an archive only, as of October 14th 2024.

Sale and England fly-half George Ford has highlighted the dangers of hindsight analysis in modern sport.

More than 450 delegates from clubs, federations and organisations around the world gathered at St George’s Park last week for Training Ground Guru’s biggest conference to date.

Elite teams need players at the base of midfield capable of making passes that penetrate and unbalance the opposition. In this article, SkillCorner use their Game Intelligence data to assess the ability of defensive midfielders to penetrate an opposition defence.

Paul Fernie is the Sporting Director of SV Darmstadt and is developing a stellar reputation in German football. In Episode #66 of the TGG Podcast, he told us how the Sporting Director role works in Germany, what it was like to work under Graham Potter and Paul Mitchell, and why more English staff should work abroad. ?

More than £1bn has been spent on built infrastructure at football Academies since the inception of EPPP in 2012. The centrepiece of the modern Academy is the indoor dome. We found out more about them from Collinson Tensile, the company behind the domes at AFC Bournemouth and Crystal Palace.