Performance on Demand, Football

Steve Coppell

Performance on Demand has a strong football pedigree, utilising the skills of Mel Eves, former Wolves and England international. Mel now runs Eleven Sports Management (http://www.elevensports.com/mel-eves.htm) and works closely with 'his' players to ensure that they are as healthy, both physiologically and mentally, as they can possibly be. Performance on Demand and POD form a strong part of this process.

Mel Eves

Early in the 2008/09 football league season Doncaster Rovers, who had been newly promoted to the Championship, were struggling near to the foot of the league. Their problem was that they had not scored more than 1 goal for some considerable amount of time. POD was trialled with about half of the first team squad and over the following few games they regularly improved their strike rate and moved up the table, finishing in a strong mid table position in their first season in the Championship.

In the same season Steve Coppell was the manager at Reading and personally experienced POD training. He was so impressed he wanted to roll this out to the entire team, however, for various reasons this did not happen and in fact Steve left the club later in the season.