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Issue 20 - May 2013 News from League Football Education Touchline Inside: GOTM I CYL Gallery I Ollie Marland I Carel Tiofack A Lasting Legacy LFE was established by The Football League and the Professional Footballers Association WEB PERSON BLOG TWITTER WEB VIDEO PERSON EMAILWEB BLOG PERSONPHONE NEWS @LFEonline TWITTERblog.lfe.org.uk BLOGHOME Youth Alliance & WEB www.lfe.org.uk VIDEO/LFEonline TWITTERFACEBOOK news EMAIL PERSON VIDEO Premier U18 Leagues BLOGPHONE EMAIL At the time of going to print Meanwhile Leyton Orient lead the way in clubs from National Group 1, National HOME PHONE TWITTER the under 18 leagues had the South East, five points clear of second Group 2 and National Group 3, plus the placed Luton Town and they look certain to 8th placed club from National Group 1. Assessment FACEBOOK VIDEO HOME entered the final furlong of take the title this season. If you’re not confused by now it boils down a long season. Trials 2013 EMAIL FACEBOOK In the Premier U18 Leagues the three to five clubs reaching the final stages in May In the North West Youth Alliance Wrexham national groups entered Phase Two after to decide the eventual champions of the This year’s Assessment Trials will be taking place in PHONE top the table and look to have an the Christmas break when the groups were Barclays U18 Premier League. May at four venues across the country. Showcasing the unassailable lead over Preston North End re-jigged. The five involved will be the top three clubs HOME with only two fixtures remaining. talents of 250 players in front of scouts from the UK and The new Elite Group scooped up the top from the Elite Group and the winners of Doncaster Rovers top the North East League FACEBOOK three clubs from National Group 1 and Group 1 and Group 2, who will face a play- abroad, the trials are open to apprentice players and but with Hull City only trailing by a point the top two clubs from National Group 2 off to determine who reaches the last four. first-year professionals. and crucially holding a game in hand, will and National Group 3, plus the best 3rd It is then a straight knock-out. Rovers be able to hold on to their lead and placed club from either National Group 2 or In the U18 PDL League Two North, Leeds Venues and Dates finish the season as champions? National Group 3. United look set to top the table with an 11 • Thursday 2 May 2013 Rochdale AFC In the South West Oxford United top the Group 1 was formed from the remaining point lead over second placed Nottingham table but Bristol Rovers have the chance 3rd placed club from National Group 2 Forest. In the South, London rivals, QPR and • Tuesday 7 May 2013 Staines Town FC to leapfrog the U’s if they can win an all or National Group 3, plus the 4th and Charlton are battling to finish top of the pile. • Wednesday 8 May 2013 St George’s Park, important game in hand. 5th placed clubs from National Group 1, Burton-upon-Trent National Group 2 and National Group 3. Group 2 is formed of the 6th and 7th placed • Thursday 9 May 2013 St George’s Park, Burton-upon-Trent WEB LFE’s Goal of the Month However, there is still one last chance to vote and crucially it is to determine the Goal of competition has proved as PERSON the Season Award from the existing monthly popular as ever with the public. winners. So don’t delay, visit www.lfe.org.uk/ BLOG So far this season 50,000 votes goal-of-the-month and give one of your peers have been registered against the the ultimate accolade by registering your vote. TWITTER 57 goals featured. www.lfe.org.uk /LFEonlineTVWEB VIDEO EMAIL PERSON 2 3 PHONE BLOG HOME TWITTER FACEBOOK VIDEO EMAIL PHONE HOME FACEBOOK WEB PERSON BLOG TWITTER VIDEO Got a story? Want to share news withEMAIL other NEWS news LFE partners? email: [email protected] PHONE Fantasy HOME Football Update DevelopmentFACEBOOK Bury’s Tom Pratt is Peterborough’s Matt Carter sits 20 Manager Team Name Goals Assists Pts points back. edging ahead in the 1 Tom Pratt Prickett’s Rocket 91 45 533 And with only a handful of games Fund Update race to win LFE’s Fantasy 2 Matt Murphy FC Murph 96 41 527 Football Competition, a left in the Championship season, Pratt must feel he is closing in on the 3 Connor Johnson Ivory Toast 95 46 527 Clubs have until 31st May resource designed to help top prize of £250 though sixth placed 4 Matt Carter The Hammers 91 51 513 2013 to submit all paperwork Apprentices complete their Joe Cracknell will be keen not to 5 Reece Lucas Lucas 11 81 55 511 relating to Development Level 3 NVQ Diploma. relinquish his crown. To keep track 6 Joe Cracknell Dream Team! 91 45 507 Fund claims to LFE’s HQ of the competition visit: At the time of writing, Pratt has made 7 Jake McCarthy Ivory Toast 86 48 504 in Preston. the most of his £10m budget and 8 Dan Andrew Soldier 92 46 502 To date 26 clubs have made successful claims leads Hull City’s Education Officer www.fantasy.football- WEB 9 Matthew Tebbutt Reigate Rovers 81 52 499 for funding. However, 50 clubs still need to Matt Murphy and Rotherham’s league.co.uk submit paperwork before the final deadline in Connor Johnson by 6 points. 10 Liam Triggs The 102 43 493 PERSON order to fully complete the claim process. Examples of equipment purchased include: BLOG video analysis software, video cameras and Troy Townsend, the father of equipment, heart rate monitors, smart board, TWITTER Tottenham Hotspur midfielder iPads, laptops, laptop charging trolley / storage Andros has picked up where VIDEO case, portable projector, defibrillator, first aid Earl Barrett left off delivering kit and spinal board, athletic development EMAIL programme and team building activities. Kick It Out’s diversity training For more information and to download a PHONE session to apprentice players. claim form please visit: HOME www.lfe.org.uk/about/ Townsend has visited Millwall, Bristol role models to someone whether they WEB Rovers, Bristol City, Luton Town, Leyton think they are or not,” said Townsend. development-fund Orient and Notts County already this FACEBOOK “The sessions provoke PERSON season while Coventry City are another club set to benefit from the training debate and the lads have BLOG before the end of this term. generally shown themselves “It’s about raising understanding and to be a knowledgeable TWITTER awareness around the issues as well as bunch.” VIDEO making all the lads realise that they are EMAIL 4 PHONE 5 HOME FACEBOOK LFE APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR LEAGUE 2 LFE APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR LEAGUE 1 Barnet’s George Sykes was the deserving winner of LFE Apprentice of Hartlepool United may have slipped to the Year for League Two at the Football League One relegation but Luke James’ League Awards this year. career is definitely on the up. 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L UN C. 1908 An IOR Ltd Company GEORGE SYKES LUKE JAMES At 6ft 5in tall, Sykes is easily-recognised in Championship opposition in the form of also achieved a BTEC Diploma with double The 18-year-old forward may only have been James is keen not to let any outside influences the PDL Under-18 League South, but it is a Birmingham City in the Capital One Cup. distinctions and while the season officially in the full-time game for approaching two affect his game. combination of his goal-scoring prowess and Now in his third season of playing within a comes to an end on Saturday 27 April, Sykes years but he has already developed quite a “It has to be ignored,” he told Touchline. link play that has made him so invaluable for professional environment, Sykes has enjoyed will still be working hard with the support of CV which includes the distinction of being the “It’s a bit like once you step over the white “It felt strange being at an awards ceremony the Bees this season. a number of different experiences - leading the staff at Stanmore College to complete Pool’s youngest ever first-team player. That line and go on the pitch, all the focus then is but when I heard my name called out as the Sykes, who hails from North Weald in Essex, the line for Barnet as they have struggled to an additional 6 units in order to gain the honour came in December 2011, a month on the game and not the crowd. winner it was a great feeling. My aim now is joined Barnet when he was 15 and played compete in the Category Two competition Extended Diploma with a hat-trick after he’d been handed his first professional “It can be a little more difficult off the pitch to help keep Hartlepool in League One and regularly in the Under-18s when he was in his and gaining further know-how playing for of distinctions. deal and just five into his apprenticeship. but if something happens then it happens, it’s every player’s dream to play in the Premier final year at Bishops Stortford High School. the Under-21s against the likes of Millwall, “George is a fantastic example to all young He created history again just four weeks later there’s no reason to worry or change what League but personally I want to nail down Brighton, Swansea and Cardiff.