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Billy Ready - Pithy language - and balls of various sizes
If you were to walk past a session put on by Billy Ready, chances are you may not see a soccer ball being used.
Instead, the 25-year-old has been known to challenge youngsters by throwing a tennis ball, multi-sided reaction ball or even an American football into small-sided games.
Billy, the son of former Wales international defender Karl Ready, also reduces complex coaching points into bitesize rhyming couplets and acronyms.
He is currently working towards his Uefa B licence, and much of his coaching has been with the community arm of English third-tier professional side Wycombe Wanderers.
But Billy is also on the staff of a local semipro team, operating in the ninth tier of the English pyramid.
SCW caught up with him to discuss his use of language and differently shaped balls - but started with a philosophical question...
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