Facilities tour - next stop Yorkshire!

Club Website kicked off our tour of some of the country's worst football facilities last month with a trip to Birmingham. We visited a couple of shocking venues to speak to those who use them and watch their games.

We'll be heading north to Yorkshire for the next leg of our tour, so if you aren't happy with the facilities at your disposal and you want us to pay your football club a visit, then make sure you get in touch!

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Keep more clean sheets in 2010

Leaking too many goals? New this month, Arsenal legend Martin Keown is passing on his experience to amateur teams looking to tighten up their defence. His expert master class Defending as a Unit is available to download now from the Lucozade Sport website.

Plus, Lucozade Sport is giving away 200 cases of Lucozade Sport with Caffeine Boost to help defenders across the country be more focused on their game in January.

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Graham Poll answers your questions

Baffled by a refereeing decision in one of your games? Amazed you didn't get the big call? Well look no further! Our favourite referee Graham Poll is back in The Club House to set the record straight and answer your questions.

Email grahampoll@clubwebsite.co.uk with your poser and it could be answered right here in The Club House. This month's selected questions cover everything from penalty shootouts to sending off a linesman... but who's asked Graham's Question of the Month and won themselves a personal signed copy of his latest book Geoff Hurst & the Hand of God?

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Win Premier League classics on DVD!

If you love your football fast and furious then you'll love this latest Club Website competition. We're giving away three volumes of Premier League Classic Matches on DVD, each featuring 20 classic Premier League games.

That means loads of goals, bags of incident and non-stop action... all of the ingredients that make the Premier League the most exciting and popular domestic league in world football.

All the drama, all the drubbings, all the comebacks and all the pivotal moments that shaped title races and relegation dog fights alike... not to mention dodgy kits and even dodgier haircuts!

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Did you win our Christmas bonanza?

Club Website did our best Santa impression this Christmas when we gave away one of our best ever prizes. This bumper prize included the following:

- A pair of VIP tickets to see a Premier League team of your choice (including meal, drinks and the best seats in the house)
- A load of Umbro football kit (tracksuit, jacket, training top, shorts, socks)
- An Umbro kit bag and five Umbro footballs
- Two great football books by Club Website's refereeing expert, Graham Poll

And the lucky winner is... Amanda Borrino of Layton Juniors FC who has won tickets to see her team Liverpool in the Merseyside derby, as well as all those fantastic football goodies. Congratulations Amanda!

More competition winners!

We've gone competition-crazy on Club Website in the last month! Six lucky punters won a copy of England's Road to South Africa on DVD while five people won the Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2009/10. Congratulations to:

England's Road to South Africa DVD: Emma Pursey (Hild Bede WAFC), Jake Coulson (Blackheath Wanderers), Joan Richardson (Walshaw Sports Club), Callum Cook, Owen Tucker, Pauline Hobday

Sky Sports Football Yearbook: Beverley Currey (Shefford Saints Juniors FC), Damian Parsons (Sanitarium FC), Jon Wainwright (Galacticos Athletic FC ), Martin Ball (South West Women's Football League), Michael Duncan (Inch & District FC)

We also ran a caption competition on Facebook to cheer people up during the 'Big Freeze'. Wayne Claridge, Gemma Stone and Chris Aaron Scott all won themselves a football!  Join us on Facebook for more top competitions!

Club Website monthly round-up

Although the traditional Christmas break and the cold weather snap have done their best to stop us, there's still been a lot going on at Club Website since the last Club House of 2009 hit your inbox.

We've introduced a new Coaching Advice section to your club website service containing a comprehensive video library of drills, each coming with illustrated instructions for you to print out and take away to use at your next training session. This fantastic new section also includes advice on tactics and coaching methods - that's a wealth of advice to help you improve your team’s performance both on the training pitch and on match day... and all for free!

We've also run a poll across our club website network asking whether a team should have received a Fair Play Award for last season after their behaviour was called into question this season just before the trophy was due to be presented. This was the situation that website administrator Eddie Carvalho found his team in, so he contacted us and asked us to ask you lot out there. We did just this and you responded in your thousands, with two-thirds support for receiving the award… you’ve been vindicated Eddie!

If you have a question that you’d like to put to the Great British footballing public, email it to us at clubnews@clubwebsite.co.uk and you may well see your question featuring in a future poll across our club website network!