Although this review has mainly focused on the acquisition of motor skills, there is a need to increase awareness of various myths that have been perpetuated regarding the development of perceptual-cognitive skills, such as anticipation and decision-making. In lay terms, these skills are often referred to as ‘‘game intelligence’’ (see, for example, Stratton, Reilly, Richardson, & Williams, in press). The elite soccer players’ superior game intelligence when compared with their sub-elite counterparts is now well documented (see, for example, Williams, 2000; Williams et al., 1999). The general viewpoint shared by many coaches, however, is that these skills are innate and not amenable to practice and instruction. Coaches consider that game intelligence improves purely as a result of playing experience and that it is not possible, or at best too difficult, to develop structured training programmes to improve these skills. In contrast to this intuitive perspective, compelling empirical evidence now exists to indicate that the acquisition of game intelligence skills can be mediated through appropriate interventions.