The Stevie G game

Skill: forward passing

EQUIPMENT: 2 sets of bibs and balls

• No one typifies the English spirit and game more than Steven Gerrard. Always driving forward, always positive. Passing the ball forward and looking to shoot from just about anywhere. He keeps going for the full 90 minutes and often snatches victory from the jaws of defeat.
• 5v5
• A normal game except that if you make a pass it has to be forward. If it is sideways or backwards the ball goes to the other team.
• Helps to get players to look for a forward option first.

“School held limited appeal: I sat in class, longing for play-time because there was always a match on in the playground. I loved dinner-time because it lasted an hour, which meant a longer match. I abandoned hot dinners as they wasted precious minutes. Eventually I asked my mother for packed lunches. Speed was vital at dinner- time. I ate the packed lunch while playing or wolfed it down running back into class.” Steven Gerrard