FORMER Newcastle Under-23 coach Peter Beardsley has been charged with three counts of using racist language to players by the Football Association.

STOKE CITY Academy Manager Gareth Jennings is leaving to become Head of Technical Leadership Programs for Fifa.

TRAINING GROUND GURU'S first Youth Development conference will offer insights from two of football's most successful Academy programmes.

FORMER Scotland international John Colquhoun hopes his youth development programme Box Soccer can bring back the best parts of street football.

READING Head of Academy Player Development Lewis Goater has left the club after almost 11 years to join Arsenal.

DAVID MOYES says he does not regret changing Sir Alex Ferguson’s backroom staff when he took over at Manchester United in 2013.

ABERDEEN are advertising for a pair of performance and scouting analysts - but have listed the roles as unpaid internships rather than jobs.

KRIS VAN DER HAEGEN, the Director of Coach Education for the Belgian Football Association, will head a special TGG conference on youth development in June.

WALES won their third Grand Slam of the Warren Gatland era by thrashing Ireland on Saturday. Nutritionist Jon Williams told us what they ate before, during and after the match.

NORWICH CITY loans manager Neil Adams tells Connor Southwell why his role is becoming increasingly important at the Championship table-toppers.

INSTEAD of spending big money on transfer fees and wages (because they can’t), Brentford decided to invest in specialists to maximise player performance. One of them is Danish sleep expert Anna West, who has been working with the Bees since 2016.

SCOTT SELLARS has replaced Gareth Prosser as Head of Academy by Wolves.