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I’m delighted to announce that I joined Glasgow Rangers FC a few months ago as a Football Operations Consultant, supporting the executive team with all aspects of Football Operations. It’s been great working with the Player Care, Team Operations, Kit & Equipment and Football Admin staff day to day, as well as the wider club too across all of our squads and teams. I’ve had the opportunity to lead our preseason tour to Spain, which was a nice change of pace and allowed me to really get to know this great club. I’ve really enjoyed working at this fantastic club over the past few months - the welcome has been incredible warm (though the weather hasn’t always been!). I’ve had the privilege of working with a number of clubs around the world and there’s no place like Rangers! @rangersfc #rangersfc 📷 by Kirk O’Rouke

It’s one of the honours of my life to have been asked to lead @UEFA's Player Welfare project on behalf of The Player Care Group. We have been working since 2025 to help the 55 National Associations of UEFA to develop policies to better support their female players through several core pillars and will be rolling out how to guides, training and templates over the coming months & years. A huge thank you to the entire Women’s Football department at UEFA for being so welcoming & engaging, particularly Colm Hickey & Claire Savin. I’m lucky to be supported by an expert group of our leading consultants from across the Women’s game to check, challenge & improve what we do – I’m loving the learning we’re doing every day on this project. It was a privilege to be invited to Oslo for my first UEFA Women's Champions League final and I loved meeting so many passionate, engaging professionals from across the world in an information exchange topped off with an end-to-end game between FC Barcelona & OL Lyonnes. Congrats to FCB for the win! This is just the start – there are a number of exciting announcements coming this summer – it’s such a pleasure to work with such a great group of confederations, leagues & clubs across the world who are passionate about creating the best conditions for their players! @PlayerCareGroup #playercare #playerwelfare #UEFA

My school football scouting report aged 11… Brutal

Found an old bag of my #pokemon cards from about 20 years ago. Anyone know the best place to understand value?

A 3 person Player Care team costs a Premier League club around £200,000 (approx €240,000) a year in salaries. A 15% reduction in failed transfers - a conservative estimate on the impact of Player Care based on research from Liverpool FC's own Director of Research speaking at a Statsbomb Conference in 2021 - would save that same club around £3M (€3.5M) annually. That's a 15:1 return. Before you factor in squad stability, player happiness, or the reputational cost of a high-profile signing publicly struggling. I'm not saying Player Care prevents every failed transfer - it doesn't - but any support we can put in place to reduce the chances of failure are clearly worth investing in. The clubs we've worked with who do this well don't just see it as pastoral care, they see it as protecting a multimillion pound asset & their performances. Instead of asking us how much it will cost, they ask how they can do it better. Player Care is a spectrum, not a binary in terms of whether clubs have it or not. At The @PlayerCareGroup we've developed a set of 170+ peer reviewed Player Care standards for the 1st team, helping clubs worldwide implement & improve their Player Care provision. In 2024 we commissioned a report into 'failed' transfers and the backgrounds, languages & ages of those players to dig more into the value of proactive Player Care. For a full copy of the findings, comment REPORT below or DM me.