Mark Bennett MBE has spent the last 30 years developing robust and scalable strategies and tools to help organisations, teams and individuals maximise the performance potential of themselves and the people they are influencing. In this episode: - Objectives as a coach (process v results) - Creating an environment (inclusion philosophy) - Player centred v needs centred - Play station coach v player led? - Reviewing sessions / linking learning - How do you get players to coach themselves? -...

In the third Coaches Insight episode we speak with Richard Shorter: (The Non-Perfect Dad) on how the role of the parents is so important and ways you can promote good behaviours. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

The second in our Coaches Insight Series. This week we speak with Tom Statham of Manchester United. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

Stewart & Ross talk to Rangers Football Academy coach, Thomas Carpels. They talk all about Brain Training in football and where it could be leading to!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

Paddy McCarthy is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, most recently for English club Crystal Palace. He currently serves as the Under-18s coach at Crystal Palace. Born in Dublin, he began his football career as a junior with Manchester City before joining Leicester City in 2005 where he spent three seasons before joining Charlton Athletic in the summer of 2007. He remained with Charlton for just twelve months, joining Crystal Palace in the summer of 2008 where...

Jamie Lawrence is a former professional football player having made 70 appearances in the Premier League. He played as a right winger for Sunderland, Doncaster Rovers, Leicester City, Bradford City, Walsall, & Wigan Athletic. He also has 24 caps for the Jamaican National team. His route to professional football was very different to many others, having led a very troubled lifestyle as a teenager with a period of time in prison. He then went onto play for teams in the lower pyramid on his...

In this interview Martyn Margetson the current England National Team Senior Goalkeeping Coach sits down with Jimmy Walker to discuss his career, goalkeeping topics and individual England goalkeepers! “Marge” started his playing career with Manchester City, joining their youth system in 1988.He went on to make 60 first-team appearances for the Maine Road side, while also having loan spells with Bristol Rovers, Bolton and Luton Town. He left City for Southend in 1998, before playing for...

Matthew Gill is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He began his career in 1997, notably representing Peterborough United, Exeter City, Norwich City (Achieved League One promotion) and Bristol Rovers, Walsall & Notts County. He made 451 appearances and scored 21 goals.  Gill was the club captain for Bristol Rovers for the 2011/12 season. Following his retirement in 2014, he moved into coaching, first becoming assistant manager at Tranmere Rovers before...

Jamie Lawrence is a former football professional player featuring in the Premiership for Bradford City & playing for his national side Jamaica. Jamie had a troubled start to life having spent time in prison. In this part Jamie follows on from Part 1 and his career after Leicester City where he moved to Bradford City where he enjoyed a brilliant time playing in the Premier League. He also enjoyed spells at Wigan, Walsall and a few more clubs. After football he transitioned into a fitness...

Jamie Lawrence is a former football professional player featuring in the Premiership for Bradford City & playing for his national side Jamaica. Jamie had a troubled start to life having spent time in prison. In this part Jamie follows on from Part 1 and his career after Leicester City where he moved to Bradford City where he enjoyed a brilliant time playing in the Premier League. He also enjoyed spells at Wigan, Walsall and a few more clubs. After football he transitioned into a fitness...

Matthew Etherington is a former footballer who played as a winger. He currently manages the under-18 team at Peterborough United which is his first coaching role in professional football. Matty started his career at the club before moving onto Tottenham Hotspur where appeared 45 times before moving to West Ham United. He made 165 appearances scoring 16 goals over a 6 year spell including help them win promotion from the Championship and re-establishing them as a Premier League club. He...

Harewood made his league debut for Nottingham Forest in 1998. In the same year, he acquired experience abroad with a successful loan spell at Haka in 1999, he had a further loan spell with Ipswich Town, scoring one goal in six appearances. Harewood went on to forge a reputation as one of the most lethal strikers in the First Division. He scored 51 goals in 124 league games and 58 substitute appearances for Forest and also scored four goals in 23 cup appearances. He joined West Ham United in...

In this interview Dean talks in detail about his career path from getting into football at a young age going through the ranks at Crewe Alexandra to retiring early due to a serious injury. Dean gives a fantastic insight into how he adapted his game throughout his career and had to improve on certain aspects. He further goes onto explain how he developed his game by learning from older experienced players. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

Shaun Derry is an English former professional footballer and manager . He previously managed Notts County and Cambridge United, and played for Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers among other clubs. In this interview Shaun speaks about his professional playing career and the transition into management whilst he was still playing! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

A while back Jimmy interviewed a young and inspiring manager, Danny Cowley. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

A while back Jimmy interviewed a true legend of the game, John Motson.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message