Day: July 8, 2024

Sports Articles

A WINLESS WIN  

The cricket World Cup Final of 2019 will be remembered for a long time by anyone who watched it.  It proved to be an astonishing, riveting, inspiring, confusing, thrilling, sporting,

Sports Articles

SEND HIM OFF! 

Red cards are quite common in professional sport but there have been some bizarre examples in  soccer. The shortest time before a player was sent off has various contenders: Giuseppe

Sports Articles

WHY PLAY SPORT WHEN YOU CAN WATCH IT ON T/V?

Right now many people are delighting in watching all the wonderful sport that is being shown on our  television screens – the soccer Afcon , the cricket World Cup, the

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GET, GIVE, GO – GOAL!

In a previous article we noted how the great Dutch soccer player, Johan Cruyff, lamented that  “playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.” So, let us make soccer,

Sports Articles

KEEP IT SIMPLE, SUNSHINE  

We are all, no doubt, very familiar with acronyms though we usually refer to them noawadays as  ‘text speak’. Many years ago it was a popular thing for a teenager

Sports Articles

SCORING GOALS – A JOY OR A JOB?  

Following the victory by a world record score of 13-0 by the USA over Thailand in the Women’s  World Cup recently, the internet has been awash with people expressing their

Sports Articles

THE FINE LINE BETWEEN HELPING AND HINDERING  

Every parent carries dreams, hopes and expectations for their children, especially in the field of  sport, which is only natural and commendable, but sadly all too often they are unrealistic

Sports Articles

HOW TO UP SPORT THROUGH SUPPORT  

It is a strange, and for some an irritating, phenomenon of modern televised sport that a lot of the  camera focus is on the spectators, not on the play; as

Sports Articles

ADVICE TO SPECTATORS

Many parents love sport and go to watch school matches with great excitement and anticipation,  longing for a victory and for their child to play a significant part in it

Education Articles

DRUGS ARE THE DREGS

A number of years ago, a headmaster approached a parent and politely asked him not only why he was not sending his child to that school but also why he