Sentence examples similar to grass roots games from inspiring English sources

With the game across the UK lacking referees of either sex – up to one in three grass-roots games proceeds without proper officials – the importance of the inspiration offered by Pirie, Toms, Fearn and Massey cannot be underestimated.

The campaign will be even more reliant than it was in 2008 on its grass roots ground game.

The FA says the council is merely the representative body of the grass roots of the game and that membership reflects the boards of county FAs across England.

"Predominantly it's about looking at maybe not so much the elite players that we've got, that are catered very well for in terms of the medical and the physical sciences, so perhaps this is more towards women's football in particular, the Welsh Premier League... and also the grass roots of the game".  .

The RFU is believed to have written a separate letter making the point that it has to use its TV income to fund the amateur game and the grass roots in addition to the professional game.

"We are not sitting where we would like to be in the table but if we can improve next year, bring young guys through and build that grass roots level then the game can still have a healthy foothold in London".

He was an organizer and spokesperson for No Games Chicago, a grass roots volunteer effort that helped derail the bid for the 2016 Olympics.

"This is testament to how far the women's game has come," says Kelly Simmons, the FA's head of the national game [ie the grass roots], who oversaw the WSL's development.

The major was convinced that the poverty of English cricket reflected the growing weakness of the game at the grass roots.

He seemed to many at the grass roots, and to the amateur national game representatives on the board, a breath of enlightenment, with the nerve to stand up for his beliefs.

Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson said: "I am extremely confident that the FA's Women's Super League will be a great success, and will not only benefit our national team but over time will improve standards at the grass roots level of the women's game both on and off the pitch".