Footy Addicts helps amateur players find a game at short notice – and tackles the problem of loneliness Cries of “Boss! Boss! Boss!” emerge from the pitch during a hard-fought game of football in a London park. There aren’t a lot of names used in this game, because most players only met just before kick-off. They were brought together by an app that’s injecting life into grassroots football. Footy Addicts was invented to solve an infuriating problem for amateur players – the late dropout, whi...