Terms of use · Tekkers & Tactics

The short version

The site is free. You don’t need an account and you aren’t buying anything.
Use the drills, sessions and diagrams to train yourself or to coach your team. Print them, take them to training and share links as often as you like.
Please don’t copy the whole site, scrape it, or pass our work off as yours.
We check the Laws against IFAB and the youth rules against The FA, and list every source. But we can’t promise everything is complete, current or right for your league, and nothing here replaces your own judgement about safety.
Tekkers & Tactics is independent of The FA, IFAB, UEFA, FIFA and every club and league.
English law applies. Your legal rights as a consumer are not affected.

1. Who we are

Tekkers & Tactics, at tekkersandtactics.com, is run by FALLINGHIPPO LIMITED, which trades as FallingHippo. In these terms “we”, “us” and “our” mean that company, and “the site” means tekkersandtactics.com and every page, file and tool on it.


Company	FALLINGHIPPO LIMITED, registered in England and Wales
Company number	17415391
Registered office	71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ
Email	hello@fallinghippo.com

2. About these terms

By using the site you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use it. They apply together with our privacy policy, cookies and storage page and licences and credits page. If you use the site for a club, school or other organisation, you confirm you can accept these terms for it.

Anyone can use the site. If you are under 18, ask a parent, carer or coach if you are unsure about anything here.

3. How you may use the site

You may:

use the drills, practice plans and skill check to train yourself;
run the drills and sessions with any team or group you coach, paid or unpaid, including at a club, school or holiday camp;
print sessions and diagrams, and hand them to other coaches, players and parents;
show pages on a screen at training or in a coaching course;
quote short extracts with credit to Tekkers & Tactics and a link to the page;
link to any page, from anywhere.

Anything beyond this, such as republishing our text or diagrams on another site, in a book, an app or a course you sell, needs our written permission. Email hello@fallinghippo.com. We are glad to say yes to clubs, schools and charities, and usually do.

4. What you must not do

You must not:

break the law using the site, or help someone else to;
copy the site or a large part of it, or build a copy of it, without our written permission;
collect pages, text or diagrams automatically in bulk (scraping), apart from ordinary search engines;
use our text or diagrams to train an artificial intelligence model or build a dataset without our written permission;
overload the site, or try to get into parts of it, our accounts or our hosting that you aren’t meant to reach;
introduce a virus or other harmful code;
remove our credits or anyone else’s, or suggest that we, The FA, IFAB or any club has endorsed you;
sell our content, or use it in a product you sell.

5. Our name and content

The site, its design, its text, the drills and sessions as we have written and drawn them, the animated boards and the software that runs it belong to us or our licensors and are protected by copyright. The Tekkers & Tactics name and crest are ours. The ideas behind football drills and tactics are shared by the whole game, and you are free to coach them in your own words. What is ours is the particular way we have written, drawn and arranged them here.

The Laws of the Game belong to IFAB, and The FA’s rules belong to The FA. We summarise them in our own words and link to the originals. We use no club crests, league marks, player photographs or other people’s logos. Tekkers & Tactics isn’t run by, approved by or connected to The FA, England Football, IFAB, UEFA, FIFA or any club, league or player.

6. The information on the site

The Laws are a summary. Our pages on the Laws of the Game are a plain-English summary of the IFAB Laws of the Game 2026/27. When it matters, the full text published by IFAB is the authority, and the referee’s decision on the day stands.

Youth rules vary. The youth formats, pitch sizes, ball sizes and heading limits come from The FA’s rules and guidance for England in 2026/27. Leagues can set their own rules within The FA’s, and other countries have different rules. Check your league handbook and your County FA.

Drills are suggestions. The drills and sessions are ideas for practice, not instructions for your situation. You know your players, your ground and the weather. Adjust anything to suit the age, ability and health of the people you coach, and leave out anything that doesn’t feel safe.

Safety is yours on the day. Before any session, check the playing surface, the equipment and the goals. Make sure goals are anchored or weighted. Have water, first aid and a way to call for help. Anyone with a suspected head injury must stop and not play again that day. Players should stop if something hurts. Our safeguarding page has more, and points to the official guidance.

Coaching children. If you coach under-18s in affiliated football in England, The FA’s rules on DBS checks and safeguarding training apply to you. Nothing on this site replaces them, or your club’s policies.

It is not advice. Nothing on the site is medical, legal or professional advice. We don’t promise that any information is accurate, complete or up to date, though we correct mistakes quickly when we learn of them.

7. Telling us about mistakes

If something is wrong, please email hello@fallinghippo.com. You agree that we may use your correction or suggestion to improve the site without paying or crediting you, unless we agree otherwise. Please don’t send anything confidential, and don’t send details about any child.

If you think you have found a security weakness, please tell us at the same address before telling anyone else, and give us a reasonable time to fix it.

8. Availability

The site is free and provided “as is”. We try to keep it running, but we don’t promise that it will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it at any time without notice.

9. Other websites

The site links to other websites, such as IFAB, England Football and the NSPCC. We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their content. A link doesn’t mean we endorse them.

10. Our responsibility to you

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that can’t be limited or excluded under English law.

If you use the site as a consumer, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We aren’t responsible for loss that wasn’t foreseeable. The site is for domestic and private use, and for coaching and teaching. If you use it for business, we have no liability to you for loss of profit, business or opportunity.

The site is free, and you choose how to use what is on it. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t responsible for injury, loss or damage that comes from how a drill, session or piece of information is used, including where it wasn’t adapted to the people taking part or the conditions on the day. This doesn’t affect the first paragraph of this section.

We aren’t responsible for viruses or other harmful material that reach your device through the site, if we took reasonable care to prevent them.

11. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms from time to time. The version on this page when you use the site is the one that applies. We’ll change the date at the top when we do.

12. Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring proceedings in your local courts. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.

13. Contact us

Email hello@fallinghippo.com, or write to FALLINGHIPPO LIMITED, 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ.