02/09/2026
The folding chair parent.
You know the one.
Wrapped up before everyone else has even found the pitch. Flask in hand. Hood up. Chair sinking slowly into the mud.
There for the early kick-offs, the freezing mornings, the sideways rain and the games where they can barely feel their toes by half-time.
And they’ll still be there next week.
Because that’s grassroots football too.
