You v You

Your biggest opponent has never worn a different shirt.

It’s the voice in your head after a mistake.

The doubt before a big game.

The pressure to perform.

The fear of what the manager, fans or your teammates might think.

Football was never meant to feel like survival.

Yet too many players spend matches trying not to make mistakes instead of playing with the freedom, confidence and belief that got them this far.

YOU v YOU is about winning the battle between your ears.

With a foreword by Rangers captain and Scotland international Lawrence Shankland, YOU v YOU draws on mindset coach John Johnstone’s experience from more than 4,000 mindset sessions with professional footballers.

John’s work has taken him inside the careers of players operating across the professional game, including Lawrence Shankland, Luke McCowan, Connor Barron, Greg Docherty, James Penrice and Josh Edwards.

Now, he brings the lessons, conversations and tools from that work together to help you build your own inner game.

Inside, you’ll discover practical tools to help you:

• Deal with pressure and expectation
• Stop one mistake becoming five
• Rebuild and protect your confidence
• Manage the overthinking that holds you back
• Trust yourself when it matters most
• Perform with greater freedom and consistency
• Build an inner game capable of taking you to the next level

Across 45 practical lessons, real stories from professional football and exercises you can put into action immediately, you’ll build a mental toolbox you can keep coming back to throughout your career.

This isn’t about becoming someone else.

It’s about removing the mental shackles stopping you from becoming the player you already know you can be.

Because when it comes to your career, it’s always been YOU v YOU.