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I've been looking for parking as well - assume there will be plenty of street parking in those estates so plan to just wing it now.

We had a friendly last night and I have no idea what happened but it was one of those games where everything we've taught them and worked on in training suddenly clicked. It was like watching 7 kids who were all on the same wave length, working in sync and knowing exactly where each other was at all times. One touch passing, perfect weighting on through balls and most impressive, playing that extra pass to give someone else a tap in rather than having a shot when in on goal. It was a perfect team performance. We play at level 3/4 but honestly, I think we would have beaten a level 1 team with how we played last night. Roll on the weekend when they inevitably have forgotten how to kick a ball again! The joy of youth football

It's a whole different world on the other touchline. I used to coach my eldest but long story short, we clashed over football and he gave it up. When he decided to get back into it, I wanted to be supportive parent rather than "coach" to him and enjoy watching him as a fan now. With my current team, we're trying to stamp it out quickly and most parents are supportive but like you say, complacency has kicked in a little when we said we didn't want to be one of those teams that "recruits" for better players over the summer. What team has your lad gone to now?

Sorry to hear that mate! Has the team folded or are the poisonous parents doing it themselves (and no doubt regretting it already)

We've started back (going into u10s) with three friendlies. Won one, drawn two. Annoyingly my lad seems to have forgotten how to play football in the few weeks we've been off. Shooting is wild and started playing deeper than normally would. It's very odd! This is our second season now and had more parent issues in the two weeks back than all of last season! Joy!

What age group mate?

Blew my mind to see he only scored 16. Felt like he had scored much more than that!

Does Michael Golding exist if not in action today??

Boom 86 - happy days! Someone suggested going to play the back 9 the next day but that doesn't count either in my mind. 18 holes continuous or nothing.

Nice one! I remember when I did it for the first time. I wasn't the one keeping score and so had no idea that it was on and then finished on 96 which was 5 shots off my best. Person who I was playing with had known it was on for a few holes and didn't dare say anything Think it's still my best round as so often can only fit 9 holes in which is heart breaking when you're on for a good score. Hit 43 on the front 9 not long ago and bad light stopped play.... devastated!

Have a look on Facebook and search for the group "Leicester Football Memorabilia Buy and Sell" - post some pictures on there and might be able to find a buyer!

Three hours to go....

Sick of bloody Northamptonshire teams coming up to Leicester and playing in the wrong level tournaments. Level 4/5 one today and 11 of the 12 teams all local. 1 from Northamptonshire.... Guess which one won with only one goal conceded all day. Their players even acknowledged they played at the highest level. 🤣🤣🤣 Organisers didn't twig until later on and could tell they were disappointed. I think it really needs to be a case of you have to show the registration cards of the squad on arrival as my lads ground out some really gutsy performances all day to make the final only to then hardly make it into the opposition half. It's just cheating at the end of the day and feeding a coach's ego one again.

How did you get on mate? We didn't turn up at all. Finished 4th in the group, won our play off and then found ourselves stuck against the level 2 side that dropped into the Europa league

That's the Thurmaston one isn't it? I know there's quite a few higher level teams in there and one team that's full of academy players so already written off any chance of winning that. I think they were struggling to fill it so have then opened it up to all which is a bit annoying as we entered it on the expectations that it was for our levels. The gap between level 1 and us at 4 is massive though. I just hope that there is enough level 1 and 2 teams to make sure that they all come in top 2 of every group and can go off to do their higher level knock outs and leave the rest of us to our own.