Jamie Carragher returned to his old school to donate a footy kit on Friday.
The 33-year-old visited All Saints Primary in Bootle as part of an initiative launched by the Barclays Premier League and the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) to boost the sport at grassroots level.
All 20 top flight teams have donated £25,000 to create a £500,000 fund to provide schools and clubs with free kit and equipment.

42 hours of flight time for 5 days of work, and totally worth it. I'm honored to have been the Communications and Marketing instructor for the FIFA Women's Com-Unity Seminar in Tanzania in October 2011.

FIFA conducts these seminars to bring together government officials, community leaders, non-government organizations, men's and women's football clubs, media partners and marketing sponsors in an effort to develop girls' and women's soccer around the world.

Tim, let's call a spade a spade mate!
Seems having seen this stuff promoted across Australia on every media set going I'd thought I'd ask the question.
Is this Tim Cahill program really giving back to grassroots football?
Now we all know Tim is a great bloke, has great compassion for Australia causes and has been a great role model for many both on the sporting and family field, and far be it for me to criticise Tim, but does anyone else feel the, "I really want to give back to the grassroots" line is a great big Scouse mickey-take.

QPR versus Chelsea; Manchester United against Man City. When down at the bookies, you would think that the first scoreline would be in favour of Chelsea with maybe a draw at best for the Manchester derby. But, as the final whistle blew there were many gasps of shock at what had just happened.

With their last minute winner against Marseille in the Champions League, the Arsenal manager said that his team had "taken a little step forward". Wenger also commented that "we're a team that has to continue to grow and have lost only once in six matches. We are slowly getting there." Come on Wenger; enough of the excuses.

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Footballnutra.

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Footballnutra offers better nutrition which can help players improve performance, recover quicker and play more football.

Liverpool FC has recently opened a football academy in New Delhi, India. Guest writer Bharat Kapur, who works in grassroots Indian football, looks at the club's motives, and ponders whether the Academy has been set up to nurture players or profits.
A few weeks ago, the Times of India announced that Liverpool was planning to open a football academy in the New Okhla Industrial Development Area (NOIDA) of New Delhi.

Jamie Lawrence Academy 4 UKFF 3

An extremely proud and historic day for UK Football Finder occurred on Saturday 3rd September 2011. At one of the oldest senior clubs in the country, Colliers Wood FC, a new era began as members from UK Football Finder came together to form a side to compete against the Jamie Lawrence Football Academy – the academy of an ex Premier and International footballer.

1st September: As football fans across the country enjoy the start of the season, a new survey by The FA has revealed a staggering 54% of guys aren't enjoying regular kick-abouts with their friends.

On average, men feel compelled to hang up their boots due to a wide range of reasons including work commitments (37%), friends dropping out the game (20%) and the arrival of children (19%).

1st September: As football fans across the country enjoy the start of the season, a new survey by The FA has revealed a staggering 54% of guys aren't enjoying regular kick-abouts with their friends.

On average, men feel compelled to hang up their boots due to a wide range of reasons including work commitments (37%), friends dropping out the game (20%) and the arrival of children (19%).

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Footballnutra.

Footballnutra brings quality, cutting edge nutrition products to football players of all levels.

Footballnutra offers better nutrition which can help players improve performance, recover quicker and play more football.

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Footballnutra.

Footballnutra brings quality, cutting edge nutrition products to football players of all levels.

Footballnutra offers better nutrition which can help players improve performance, recover quicker and play more football.

We are proud to announce the first of many UKFF Pro Trial Challenge Matches.

You'll be representing the UK Football Finder brand, against the best players from the Jamie Lawrence Academy, so don't embarrass yourself. Exceptional players only.

Please bring £10 for the pitch, no pay, no play, and that is final.

The story of how this evening's match between Ascot United and Wembley FC has come to be shown live via the medium of Facebook thanks to the tournament's sponsors, Budweiser, has, it could well be argued, had a positive effect for all concerned. The Extra Preliminary Round of the FA Cup and, in turn, the tournament itself has received a shot of publicity for a stage of the competition that usually receives next to none.

Steve Cooper has spoken of his pride at assuming the role of Academy manager.
The former U16 coach has been instrumental in the progress that has been made in Kirkby over the past few years, resulting in a deserved promotion.
Cooper told Liverpoolfc.tv: "Frank McParland has taken on more responsibility and passed on the Academy manager's role to me.

The FA is all about supporting grassroots football isn't it? Well not if you are Almondsbury Town FC and they evict you...

Almondsbury Town FC have been enjoying a great season. They are playing at the highest level in the club's history with a decent squad of good local players.