This game provides a good basis to get players to understand the concept and effect of marking players, and of the kind of movement needed to lose a marker.

Pick two teams, and mark out a standard pitch. The only difference to standard football is that each player is 'paired' with a player in the opposing team. It is their job to:

• Mark that player when the opposition team are in posession
• Lose that player when the team are in posession

A slight twist to this, which can help with understanding the transission from attack to defence, is to have two pairings. One pairing is in effect if one team is in posession, and the other is in effect when the other team is in posession.

This can be confusing at first, but the players will, eventually, learn that when they lose posession they will need to look for the player they are supposed to be marking and recover quickly.