A WINLESS WIN  

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, enthralling occasion  as history beckoned a winner. So, who did win,...
SEND HIM OFF! 

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 Lorenzo of  Bologna was sent off after ten seconds in 1990 for hitting a...
WHY PLAY SPORT WHEN YOU CAN WATCH IT ON T/V?

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 Women’s soccer World Cup,  Wimbledon tennis, the four-nation Rugby Championship (and...
GET, GIVE, GO – GOAL!

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, and indeed all sport, as  simple as possible. We do not need to make it...
KEEP IT SIMPLE, SUNSHINE  

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 to send a letter to his or her loved  one with the letters SWALK on the back; if we know what...