https://trainingground.guru/articles...coaches-course

Good post but are you getting your licences mixed up? You may well be right about the UEFA coaching badge but it seems the elite coaching licence is an FA thing and was disbanded some years ago.

I wasn't trying to catch you out; I figured that we couldn't afford Critchley at the moment so wondered if we could find a similar graduate who wouldn't need a fee and found the link above, though it looks like Critchley was the standout student.

Hopefully our new board member is on the case and scouring the globe for a similar prospect (said in hope rather than expectation).