It is the third year you have coached your own kid's team. The relationship has changed at home in ways you did not anticipate. The dinner-table conversation about football is now a closed conversation. The kid does not bring up Tuesday training the way they used to. Saturday mornings, the kid asks whether it is a game day, but the asking is to find out whether they can avoid it, not because they are excited.

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