Could there not be a compromise, Join the boy in a football club and after school activity. One of my grandsons was football mad, they have a very small garden, he played for the junior school at the time and practiced a few nights a week with a separate club, he’s 13 now and plays for a university team in Plymouth.
The only thing he does in the garden is practice footwork and ball balancing.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
... Good luck with him moving out at 18. The way things are going in this country with the price of housing, he'll still be with you at 38!
But hopefully won't still be playing footy in the back garden at 38
I wouldn't count on it ... the chap behind us went to school with my son, so late 40s, and there have been times when we hear the ball thudding into the goal net, and I'm sure his boys are down the road with their mates
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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One of my grandsons was football mad, they have a very small garden, he played for the junior school at the time and practiced a few nights a week with a separate club, he’s 13 now and plays for a university team in Plymouth.
But hopefully won't still be playing footy in the back garden at 38
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.