Writing
Writing
Registered psychologist, nine years with players, coaches and referees. Booking takes one line and you do not have to explain why first.
The penalty is not where you think it is
It is decided in the walk, not the strike. Almost everything that can be trained about a penalty happens before you place the ball.
You do not have to be in crisis to book
The most common sentence in a first session is that they nearly did not come because it did not feel bad enough to deserve it.
Your player is not fragile. Your environment might be.
For coaches. Some of what gets referred to me as a mindset problem is a coaching problem, and I am going to say so.