Martin Lee Herdman @martylee66

We are devastated to learn of the passing of Kevin Keegan, one of the most iconic, influential and deeply loved figures in our club’s history. Kevin was more than a legendary footballer and manager. He was the beating heart of Newcastle United for generations of supporters.

𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐁𝐊. 🇮🇩 See you again on Tuesday, Garuda Fans! 🎟️ Tickets available on kitagaruda.id/ticket ‣ #TimnasDay ‣ #GarudaMendunia

Our Under-14s won the 2025/26 Albert Phelan Cup following a 3-2 extra-time victory against Everton earlier today. Well in, lads 🏆🙌

For Drew, football has never just been a game. Living with cystic fibrosis and diabetes, the pitch has been a place of routine, strength and escape. It’s how she protects her health, her mental wellbeing and her sense of who she is. After years of pushing through illness, hospital stays and setbacks, an ACL injury has now placed another barrier in front of her. Not because she lacks resilience or ambition, but because access, funding and support still aren’t equal for everyone in the women’s game. If you want to hear more about Drew’s journey and why stories like hers matter in conversations about care, access and sustainability in women’s football, head to the link in the comments to read our latest piece. Every donation and share helps bring Drew closer to returning to the pitch and continuing the sport that is central to her health and wellbeing. You can support her by donating or sharing her fundraiser via the link in our linktree (located in our bio). 🎨 @LDAWGraphics #womensfootball #beyondthepitch #aclinjury

🚨 John Herdman on choosing Indonesia over other CONCACAF options: 🗣️ “My career has always been about building. I want to work with a federation that has the vision to take a country to places it has never been before.” 🗣️ “Indonesia is ready. No more excuses. We have the players, the ability, and a professional league. Now it’s time to build the habits needed for qualification.” 🗣️ “This is one of the most exciting jobs in world football. It’s not about rankings. There is a huge opportunity here in Indonesia to go somewhere no group of man or fan has ever been: reaching the World Cup. That is the mission.” 🗣️ “Every day I wake up, every day I get out of bed, everything I’ll be thinking about—other than my family—will be qualifying this team to the World Cup.”

Welcome, John Herdman 😍 #HyundaiCup #ASEANUtdFC 📸 PSSI

New challenge, new country 🇮🇩⚽️ Proud of my bro taking on this role. He will smash it 👊 🦅

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8 months ago

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: John Herdman has been appointed as the new head coach of the Indonesia national team.

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Professional Game Academy players Grace Collinson, Lucy Noble and Lillie Coulson are all named in today's squad for our Adobe Women's FA Cup tie against Sheffield United!🙌 It's another incredible story for our pathway - with Grace having been at the club since U10!💙

Fast Passing Patterns to Score ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ✔️ Set up passing lanes approx 24 by 15 yard lanes. 👕 Teams: ✔️⚫️ Passing pattern 1 ✔️ 🔴 Passing pattern 2 ✔️ 🟡 Passing pattern 3 🗣️ How to play: ✔️ Teams work through the following passing patterns to score a goal 🥅 : 1️⃣ ⚫️s work through a set and slide pattern to create a scoring chance 2️⃣ 🔴s play long, Set centrally, Slide in 1st Passer to play wall pass and finish 3️⃣ 🟡s Play central, Around corner Pass, Set staring passer to Slide Middle passer to set up Furthest player to score 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: Have races through patterns 1st team to x amount of patterns. 👨‍🏫 Review: Movements off cones, pace and accuracy of passing. 🚫 Restriction: 3 lives per a player- if you mess up you have to do 20-50 toe taps to get back in. @Tactica1Thinker @Coach_Osku @AdvFtbAcad @TheS_Resource @ExchangeCoaches @JB_SoccerCoach @PeterPrickett @MySoccerProfile @BreakthruSoccer

1v1 | Reacting to Your Mark ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🎯Aim: ➡️ React quickly to the 1v1 moment and identify the player to mark. Set-Up: ➡️ On a 20 by 20 space sectioned up into quarters. Position 4 attacking players on the outside of the circle and two defenders on the inside. 👕 Teams: ⚫️s Defending, 🔴s Attacking 🗣️ How to Play: ▶️ 2 x defender (black) start in the middle of the circle. Attackers (Red) are numbered and on the outside of the circle. ▶️ Coach calls out 2 numbers, 1 to 4, then those attackers must dribble from the quarter they are in to the diagonally opposite quarter. ▶️ The defender must react to stop them, regain the ball and dribble out of the quarter of the circle where the attack started. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: If the defender wins the ball and passes out to their spare teammate on the outside or dribbles out of the circle, they knock a goal off the attacker’s score ⚽️. 👨‍🏫 Review: The defender’s ability to react to the attackers and close the space effectively. 🚫 Restriction: The attacker has a time limit to get off the pitch, or they lose the chance to score. @Tactica1Thinker @LloydOwers @Coach_Osku @205_Academy @MySoccerProfile @TheS_Resource @JB_SoccerCoach @ExchangeCoaches @SessionShareNet

4v2 Possession | Wide Play Connections ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner ☑️ Develop 2 player combinations in wide areas. 🧱Set-Up: ➡️ Section a 40 by 30 pitch into three playing zones. Place a no go zone right in the centre of the pitch (orange shaded area) 👕Teams: 🔴’s vs ⚫️’s plus 🟡 🧩 How to Play: ▶️ The ⚫️’s connect 3 passes in an outer zone vs x 2 🔴’s. The ⚫️’s play into either 🟡 in the central wide area which triggers 🔴 defender behind the 🟡 to enter that central zone to defend. ▶️ 1 x ⚫️ can join in to overload the zone in a 2v1 vs the 🟡, another ⚫️ runs through the spare central channel to transition into the other outer zone to reset the 4v2 moment. ▶️ If the 🔴’s win the ball they score in the goal behind the attacking team. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆 Reward: A successful 2v1 combination into the opposite zone locks in a goal for the ⚫️’s. 👨‍🏫 Review: The ball carriers decision to dribble or pass. 🚫 Restriction: Place a 4 pass limit on the outer zones to play into the central zone. @Tactica1Thinker @Coach_Osku @LloydOwers @205_Academy @JB_SoccerCoach @BreakthruSoccer @MoSouisse @SessionShareNet @TheS_Resource @MySoccerProfile

Possession Practice | Sliding in Runners ⚽️ Created On: @SSP 🗣️ Aim: ➡️ Control possession and slide in a runner to score. 🗣️ Set-Up: ➡️ Space: The size of the playing area, including scoring zones, is approximately 55 by 35. ➡️ Each of the coloured zones, orange, yellow, and red, are 5 yards deep. The zones above and below the yellow zone are approximately 20 by 35 each. ➡️ The 🔵’s are neutral players who are fixed in the zones shown and play for the team that has the ball. 🗣️ How to Play: ➡️ 5 x 🔴s vs 5x⚫️s. ➡️ ⚫️s defend the red zone and score in the orange zone, 🔴s defend the orange zone and score in the red zone. ➡️ Each team scores by passing into a space for a runner to receive in the orange or red scoring zones. ➡️ The defending team can only have 1 player in the yellow zone. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: Notice that the scoring zones are broken into lanes. Award double goals if the pass and run occur from different lanes (See animation; both goals are like this) 👨‍🏫 Review: The timing of the run and the speed of the pass. 🚫 Restriction: 3-pass limit in the defending zone. @Tactica1Thinker @Coach_Osku @205_Academy @TheS_Resource @SSPlanner @JB_SoccerCoach @SessionShareNet @ExchangeCoaches @MySoccerProfile @PeterPrickett

2v2 | Attacking Quickly| Fast Break Lanes. ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ✔️ On a 25 by 25 pitch, quarter the pitch and offset a pair of mini goals at each end of the field. ✔️ Players are positioned either side of a mini goal facing the opposite end of the pitch. 👕 Teams: ✔️Both teams ⚫️s & 🔴s are attacking and defending they follow a set sequence - they attack the goal in the lane they are in and defend the goal in the opposite lane of the pitch. 🗣️ How to play: Sequence: Attack | Defend | Leave Pitch ✔️ ⚫️s attack the goal they are facing, they must be beyond the halfway line before they can score. ✔️ As soon as the ⚫️s have shot the 🔴s can attack the goal they are facing in the other lane. ✔️ Players cannot enter the orange shaded zone to block shots or defend. If the defending team win the ball they can score in the mini goal behind the attacking team. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: 1st time finishes as double goals 👨‍🏫 Review: When to pass into feet and when to pass into space. Timing runs to exploit space. 🚫 Restriction: Time limit to shoot or ball ⚽️ is turned over to the other team. @Tactica1Thinker @Coach_Osku @LloydOwers @205_Academy @JB_SoccerCoach @BreakthruSoccer @MoSouisse @SessionShareNet @TheS_Resource @MySoccerProfile

3v3 +2 | Forward Passing | Scanning and Awareness ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ✔️ 30 by 20 spaces with a pair of mini goals offset by around 4 yards at each end of the pitch. ✔️ Split the field into 6 x grids 👕 Teams: ✔️⚫️ Attacking and Defending. ✔️🔴 Attacking and Defending. ✔️🟡 Target players for each team. 🗣️ How to play: ✔️ In attack, play off the the target 🟡 and finish into the mini goal. ✔️ In defence, try to cover occupy the three grids that are near and next to the ball for compactness. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: Three one touch passes and a finish equals double goals. 👨‍🏫 Review: The decision to pass forward or retain the ball. 🚫 Restriction: Touch limits in final third (2 or 1 touch) @Tactica1Thinker @LloydOwers @Coach_Osku @205_Academy @BreakthruSoccer @TheS_Resource @ExchangeCoaches @PeterPrickett @JB_SoccerCoach @SessionShareNet

Step In | Join In | Through the Zones ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner ✅ Combine through the zones of the pitch. Step in or join in to overload the next zone 🧩 Set-Up: ➡️ 30 by 20 playing area with a pair of mini goals on each side of the pitch. ➡️ Split the field in half and place a pair of defenders, 🔴’s in each half. 👕Teams: 🔴’s vs ⚫️’s 
 ⏯️ How to Play: ☑️ ⚫️’s start at one of the pitch and they aim to work the ball to the target ⚫️ at the opposite end of the pitch. ☑️ Only 1 ⚫️ can join the other half to overload it (doesn’t matter who it is). The player who passes to the target ⚫️ joins in, and the ball is worked in the other direction. ☑️ If the 🔴’s win the ball at any point, they try to score in any mini goal.
 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: First team to get 5 goals or there and back through the zones x 3 times 👨‍🏫 Review: Timing of support runs, decision to dribble or pass through the zones. 🚫 Restriction: Touch limit for the ⚫️’s. @Coach_Osku @Tactica1Thinker @TheS_Resource @JB_SoccerCoach @205_Academy @PeterPrickett @BreakthruSoccer @MySoccerProfile @SessionShareNet @ExchangeCoaches

3 Team Possession | Connect or Dribble to Score ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner ✅ Receiving to play through pressure. 🧩 Set-Up: ▶️ 40 by 30 rectangle with a 6 by 6 central square and the corners of the pitch sectioned off (dashed lines). The game is 4v4 centrally plus 4 support players. ▶️ Place a mini goal at each end of the pitch. 👕Teams: 🔴’s vs ⚫️’s plus 🟢 support. ⏯️ How to Play: ✔️ ⚫️’s vs 🔴’s compete for possession. They use the 🟢s to help them keep the ball. Before scoring, the attacking team must: 1️⃣ Dribble through the central square and find a 🟢 target before scoring in a mini goal. 2️⃣ Find two 🟢 support players and score in any mini goal. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: Double goals for three player connections 👨‍🏫 Review: The timing of passes and movements to receive the ball. 🚫 Restriction: The possession team has a max of 8 passes to score, or the possession flips to the opponent. @Tactica1Thinker @Coach_Osku @LloydOwers @205_Academy @JB_SoccerCoach @CoachesVoice @BreakthruSoccer @PeterPrickett @SessionShareNet @TheS_Resource @ExchangeCoaches @AdvFtbAcad @MySoccerProfile

2v2 | Receiving to Turn and Shoot. ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ✔️ 1 big goal and 2x small goals. ✔️ Use an 18 yard box or similar size based on age of players. 👕 Teams: ✔️⚫️ vs 🔴s - 🗣️ How to play: ✔️ Attackers- Pass into Coach (C) then combine to score in the larger goal. ✔️ Defenders - Win the ball and get into shaded zone to score in any mini goal. (Can play off Coach (C) to score. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: Winner stays on (who can get most consecutive wins. 👨‍🏫 Review: Scan for pressure, skill with speed, surprise shooting to catch out GK. 🚫 Restriction: Must combine with a teammate before you can score. @Coach_Temisan @Tactica1Thinker @LloydOwers @Coach_Osku @205_Academy @BreakthruSoccer @TheS_Resource @ExchangeCoaches @MoSouisse @JB_SoccerCoach @SessionShareNet

3v3 Game | Locked in Channels. ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ➡️ Narrow pitch 16 by 24yards split into 2 x vertical channels. ➡️ Staggered mini goals ➡️ Players are locked into channels. 2v2 on one side and 1v1 on the other. 👕 Teams: ⚫️s vs 🔴s 🗣️ How to play: ➡️ Normal game with a few different ways of scoring. ⚽️ Dribble over end line and cross for a 1st time finish. ⚽️ Dribble over end line and score. ⚽️ Slide in a runner into the end zone and score with a first time finish. 🗣️ Defenders cannot track over the end line @LloydOwers @Coach_Osku @Tactica1Thinker @205_Academy @TheS_Resource @JB_SoccerCoach @MoSouisse @ExchangeCoaches @SessionShareNet

4v4 | 2 ball ⚽️ Game | Combine and Score. ⚽️ Created On: @SSPlanner 🟩 Set Up: ✔️ 40 by 30 pitch split into thirds. Players start in the positions shown. 👕 Teams: ✔️⚫️ Receive ball 1️⃣ ✔️ 🔴 Receive ball 2️⃣ 🗣️ How to play: ✔️ ⚫️s try to combine and score in the shaded zone with ball 1️⃣. ✔️ 🔴s break toward the large goal and try to score past GK 🟢 with ball 2️⃣. 🚧 Constraints: 🏆Reward: The 2nd ball to the scoring team. 👨‍🏫 Review: Combinations around the box to create scoring chances. 🚫 Restriction: Time limits to score or the 2nd ball ⚽️ is served in. @Tactica1Thinker @LloydOwers @Coach_Osku @205_Academy @PeterPrickett @BreakthruSoccer @TheS_Resource @allenaremania @ExchangeCoaches @JB_SoccerCoach @SessionShareNet

Jay Herdman has joined @vanfootballclub on loan from @CPLCavalryFC for the remainder of the 2025 #CanPL season 🦅