Aside from the centuries of cultural and societal popularity, the size of football’s global grassroots game comes from a much simpler, universal truth: it’s remarkably low maintenance. Everyone with a ball is a footballer and whether it’s on Hackney Marshes, or one of the 200 Powerleague or Goals centres around the country, you can get a game. Given the sound of balls and beer guts bouncing off plywood boards can be heard in every town with a population greater than ten, you’d be forgiven for ... read more