The Football Association today announced their plans for grassroots football in England for the next four years.

The National Game Strategy 2011-15 promises a further £200m investment in the grassroots game over this period, while refreshing the original four-year strategy, published in 2008.

Lanthorne Strokes extended their incredible run of draws to 10 with another stalemate at the weekend.

The 1-1 draw at table-topping Active Queens Head – which saw the league leaders equalise in the 80th minute – was the tenth draw in as many league games this season for the Kent club, whose website is powered by Club Website.

Repeated heading of a football can lead to an increased risk of brain injury, doctors have warned.

Researchers in the US studied MRI scans of 38 amateur football players and found that those who headed the ball over 1,000 to 1,500 times a year showed significant signs of changes to the brain.

“It was an unbelievable day.”

The words of Pieter Hine, a football coach from Reading who realised a boyhood dream by taking the field at Wembley Stadium last Sunday.

Rangers coach Ian Durrant has revealed that another 10,000 children have participated in the Scottish FA’s Tesco Bank Football Challenge in the first 100 days of the project’s second season.

Over 29,000 children have now been involved in the first 18 months of the programme.