Filmed in November 2018, at Trent Park Football, this game saw two top 5-a-side teams go at it in the chance to win £500.
What Makes a Great 5-a-side League
When it comes to 5-a-side leagues, the quality of the experience can vary signficantly. The worst leagues are nothing short of soul destroying and seem to have a conveyor-belt of teams joining and then immediately leaving, full of regret. But the best 5-a-side leagues are true footballing hotbeds and the stuff of local legend – […]
5 Unexpected Challenges of Running a 5-a-side League
This article is a guest post by Ian Horne of London-based 5-a-side league operator ‘Leagues Ahead’ It’s been about a year since my team, the brilliantly named Mickey Melons, last played in a competitive league. For 5 lads from Portsmouth, the prospect of paying £55 per week for our weekly matches (before you gasp, we’re […]
How Much Time is The Ball in Play in a Soccer Match?
In a previous article (why you should play 5-a-side football) I brought you a fact about 11-a-side football which caused some controversy. When I told you that in 11-a-side football there ball is in play only 64% of the time, it brought out the skeptics in a big way. So, I looked further into it […]
What You Need to Know About Artificial Grass
Artifical grass, artificial turf, astro turf, call it what you want. This stuff has revolutionised the world of football over the last 20 years. With its long, lush carpet features, it’s almost as good as real grass. Some would say it’s even better. It plays evenly, doesn’t wear into a mud bath and, after it has […]
Sean Garnier – In London for Futsal!
It’s not often that I’d take a whole post to publicise something, but I happen to know that a lot of you are going to be in London tomorrow (Sunday 7th Dec) and I really don’t want you to miss this! Sean Garnier and London United Futsal Yep, that’s it, tomorrow at 5pm London United […]
How to correctly write ‘5-a-side’
We don’t want to get all militant about this, but come on people, there are some really bad attempts at writing ‘5-a-side’ out there on the internet and it needs fixing. It might seem like a trivial detail (and not our most action-packed blog post), but it is important to get it right if you […]
Am I too Old for 5-a-side?
There comes a time in a man’s life (and a woman’s too – there’s no exception) when his body can’t quite do what it used to be able to do. Your body becomes slower to recover from a game. Aches and pains get increasingly familiar and linger a bit longer each time. What’s going on? […]
6 Great Lessons From the Brazil World Cup 2014
The party is over. But what a great world cup it was – it had it all: drama, goals, moments of madness. Brazil put on a wonderful show. We’ve only just had time to catch our breath and think about what we saw. But now that the dust has started to settle, here are six lessons we […]
5-a-side.com’s 2014 Manifesto
It’s a new year and that means it’s time to reflect on the year that’s gone, as well as the year ahead. We look at what we’ll be aiming to do and what you can do to join the exciting journey that this blog is on! If you’re new to our site then a very […]