Every professional and non- professional club should follow your advice on developing players, attacking and giving confidence. The way you have explained the game means with very little effort players can understand and work out what to do in a real game situation. Other coaching books are full of o's and x's and don't relate what's being taught to the game. A fantastically well researched and simply written piece of work.

Ian, UK

The Basic Guide to Tactics in small sided games has transformed my team. They are enjoying the game more and we are winning more. I feel much happier as I can see what's going wrong and put it right.

Graham, England

We worked hard and re-organised having read you Simple manual. We are unbeaten and the players are enjoying the game more as for the first time they know what they are supposed to do when defending and attacking.

David, Canada

Phil, just a word of thanks for the soccer coaching manual, I am involved with coaching a regional rep senior team in the Northern league in NZ. I coach the reserve side so as you can imagine we have had a large number of players through our sessions this season. I started the season with basic tactical awareness, measuring our performance and, as much as possible, the oppositions. At the half way mark we had 13 points on the table (of a possible 30) and had won a couple of great cup games. The second half of the season has gone slightly better. We have 34 points with 3 games to go. Increased tactical awareness has enabled our team of largely teen players to out play larger, older and technically generally better teams. I very much appreciate your input. Many thanks.

 Jerome Luiten, New Zealand