Arsene Wenger Teaches Us 5-A-Side

http://home.skysports.com/articlefp.aspx?hlid=428633&channel=nike

Mini sent this out by e-mail towards the end of last year sometime. I don't know if anybody watched any of it but I held on to it, and just remembered today about it.

I was watching it, and it was interesting some of the points he raised. Mainly that there are a number of things you can work on for 5-a-side football (including physical stuff) but the most important are movement and vision, along with speed. Now the speed thing he says there is not a lot you can do to improve it - you are born with it or you aren't, though you can improve your reactionary speed.

However interestingly I think the area where we are particularly poor is the movement aspect of our games. Mr Wenger says that if your always moving, there is generally always an outlet so therefore you keep possession better. If you have possession then the opposition don't they can't score. Its something Mini in particular has been saying for a long time, and something in particular that I noticed last week while in net. A distinct lack of movement from players, quite often it was only either Shiz or Nev who made a run to get into space or free space for the opposition player.

Another point that I found interesting is that of the improtant skills above that Arsene suggests, Big Pete is poor at at least two of the (vision and movement) and should and could be better at the other (his speed). Says a lot too me really. Now Pete I know you respect Arsene Wenger a lot, so I hope you take on board what I am saying here on his behalf.

This does go for everyone else too, though on the whole they are nowhere near as lacking in these as Pete is. The movement one though is something that I feel in particularly we should be ramming home and improving next game...

Thanks for listening guys!

And thanks to Arsene for giving us some advice!! :)