I said I never would, but I am gonna have a blast about my daughter's football team.

I used to coach the team up until about 6 months ago. I had to step back because the Manager of the club was completely undermining everything I was trying to do with the girls. She couldn't have cared less about the kids, it was just all about her and it was doing my head IN! She brought in a new coach, without even telling me by the way and the kids just won't take any notice of him at all. I feel sorry for him really and so I asked him if he wanted any help with the girls about 3 weeks ago, coz things were just getting out of control. He said yeah and everything was fine. Then I go a text, (a text I might add) telling me that he didn't want me to help him, that he was fine on his own.

Now this is a girls team and I am a qualified coach with this club. I am obviously a woman and have the kids best interest at heart. You need a woman coach within the club to deal with the child protection and health and safety aspects for the girls. Bearing in mind, they are an under 13's team.

The kids at the moment are completely demoralised and all want to leave coz all the fun has gone out of the team. They are getting thrashed every time they have a match and we (the parents) have been told we can't shout encouragement from the side lines. It is absolutely crazy.

The Manager, needless to say, apparently doesn't care about the kids at all. All she cares about is herself. She is just in it for herself and it is driving me crazy.

Now in Hartlepool, we have a rival club called St. Francis. They are an amazing club as a whole and I have been asked to start an under 13's girls team for them.

My theory for football is, along with the technical side obviously, that the girls need to believe in themselves. Football is all about confidence and believing in yourself, not to be scared of the ball and give it your all.

If I take over the St. Francis, I know half of the old team will come with me and that will mean that the other team will be no more. My first reaction was, I just can't do that. I am already public enemy number one. But when you have got our parents saying to me every week, this is demorolising for the kids, why aren't you coaching them anymore, what can you do. Honestly, their heads are down, they have no confidence, they are starting to get aggressive with the other teams, it is just a nightmare. We lost 18-0 this morning. About 7 months ago, we have a tournament at Trimdon and the Manager wasn't there. The kids were buzzing. We won the tournament really easily and the kids were on top of the world. Even if we hadn't of won, the kids had such a good time. They were singing, laughing and really enjoying themselves.

It is absolute madness. I really don't know what to do. I have heard the manager slagging some of our girls off before, calling them names, outwardly bragging when they haven't got into major Acadamy's like Sunderland and Middlesbrough. What is going on? Why is this woman in charge. Any kid she doesn't like get pushed out. Everything is personal with her. I have been with this club for about 4 years now and I think the kids are amazing. She is destroying every single one of them slowly but surely. Part of me just wants to stay out of it and let the team come to a natural end, which it will before long coz all the kids do not want to play any more. The other part of me wants to fight for the kids and build up their confidence again. WHat should I do? Seriously?

She just doen't like me coz I have an opinion and I am not afraid to stand up to her and open my mouth. She is a bully who lives her life through the club.

Do you know what, I don't need this. My daughter wants to leave and I have just said to her that she needs to think about it and not make any rash decisions. She loves her football, but at the moment it is destroying her confidence.

Sorry for going on a bit, but this has been boiling up insode of me for too long.

If I was a nasty person, I could go up to all these parents and tell them exactly what she has been saying about their kids. She is SSSOOOOOOOOOOO 2 faced. I think she doesn't like me coz I say it how it is. I like people to do the same. Why can't people just see through her and see her for what she is, a bully.

Hey hum.............be seein' ya X