Once coaches abandon this secular way of thinking and behaving they can begin improving their knowledge base and how they help footballers.

This is genuinely all I want when I work with a club, youth or senior players.

It makes my job as the coach so much easier.

In reality, they achieve nothing and look like they are “modern” teachers. This appearance is enough to stroke the ego and keep the coach employed longer because no decision makers who choose if they coach stays or goes can understand what is happening.

The game model suggests what to coach and who to recruit, creating a smaller pool of potential solutions and players to use, stagnating the development of the player.

This means that they perhaps follow a club curriculum or game model, without considering that it is the insight you give a player that makes them better, not the exercise, game model or “belief”.

The reality for the majority of grassroots coaches is that their approach is doing what they feel is best for the group.

The choices, or lack thereof, must be trained in an environment as close to the match as possible so that the split second decisions we criticize players for are prepared and familiar.

Moreso in youth football, the match is a test for the footballer to show they can apply what has been taught. But if no solutions are taught, the footballer is doomed to fail.

Therefore, any solution used after reviewing match preparation that is from the game model is merely coincidence and not objective.