The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Astroturf

Tomorrow night Stoke City play their first ever second round game in European Competition.

Prior to this season The Potters had played in two European ties and lost on away goals both times.

This season they have seen off Croatia’s Hadjuk Split over two legs in the Europa Cup to set up a trip to FC Thun in Switzerland.

Now, I am going to the match. But the reason for writing this blog isn’t to tell you about the fact the coach leaves Stoke’s ground at 6pm tonight and will take me 17 hours to get there its rather to talk about what it can tell us about running leagues on the basis that we try and help you do here at Soccer Business.

We do not currently have a franchisee in Switzerland (if you do want to run leagues in that country get in touch because we could help you do that) but the pitch at the Arena Thun is Astroturf.

I didn’t know this until yesterday, when I was trying my best to find out all the info I could on the game (last night, obviously, on my laptop at home – in case my boss is reading this!) and that is the crux of the matter.

It can teach you a very valuable lesson with regard to the advantage of being a franchisee.

If you are running leagues in the area, you will be absolutely in the best position possible to take advantage of any local knowledge and developments.

So if there’s a rival league, if there’s a new pitch, if there’s anything that happens anywhere near you that could either affect of benefit your league then you will need to be all over it. And more to the point, you should be.

And that in a nutshell is why we formed Soccer Business. We believe that you, as a franchisee, with the backing of the major brand we can give you, will be able far better able to run local leagues than anyone else.

So if you want to make Soccer your business, then give us a call and we can help you.

Now, where’s my passport….?