With the new grassroots football season kicking off, our newsletter Kick N Mix takes a look at what thousands of parents across the country will be going through pre-match
For many grassroots teams, this weekend marks the start of the new football season.
Holidays are out the way, kids are back to school and the focus is fully on the weekend’s games. Many of you will have your own rituals, be it a lucky coffee cup you’ll drink from on the morning of the game, or the post-match trip to McDonalds for a celebratory Big Mac and milkshake.
Yet there’ll also be things that thousands of parents up and down the country will no doubt be doing in unison pre-match.
We asked Paul Kirton, from our mates at Team Grassroots, to come up with what the typical grassroots parent’s pre-match routine looks like, and here’s what he said…