‘Wooh! Good finish,” calls out coach Ian Westlake as 10-year-old TJ fires a shot at goal. “Set it,” he shouts to the next player, “and then run. You want to come off your left foot.”
It’s halfway through the Kesgrave Kestrels’ regular 90-minute Thursday evening training session – somewhere between the opening drills and the finishing game – and a brisk southwesterly wind is blowing in from the Suffolk coast, 15km away, gusting across the pitch of blue artificial turf.
Volunteer coaches Westlake, Dan Spurling and Paul Berry formed
