Fewer than 0.1% of the 1.5 million boys playing youth football in England will make it to the Premier League. Of those joining academies at under-8 level, just 0.5% go on to make a living in the game.

Marcia Lewis, mother of Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly, is on a mission to help parents navigate the world of youth football, using her own experience and learnings. With no prior knowledge of the sport ...

“Good luck, Mum.” The sweet exchange, between Myles Lewis-Skelly and his mother Marcia, was the perfect prelude to an evening that was all about the families of academy prospects and how best to help ...

Marcia Lewis, the mother of Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly, is not from a football family. She did not grow up around the sport and she did not follow it during the early years of her son’s development ...

The short story of my time with Marcia Lewis and Kate Iorpenda, who led a talk to parents of young footballing talents for their organisation The No1Fan.club, is that my mind was opened to a side of ...