OUT OF BOUNCE 

OUT OF BOUNCE 

“The wonderful thing about Tiggers,” as any parent who has read AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh  stories to his child (or watched the Disney films) will know, “is Tiggers are wonderful things”. Tigger  lives with his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and bounces...
PLAYING ADVANTAGE  

PLAYING ADVANTAGE  

Prior to the 1980s, international hockey matches were played on grass but thereafter all  international matches (and subsequently all league matches) were played on the synthetic Astroturf  pitches, where the ball ran smoother and players were less likely to...
THE TROUBLE WITH REFEREES  

THE TROUBLE WITH REFEREES  

Bill Shankly, the fanatical soccer manager who reinvented Liverpool Football Club in the late 1960s,  famously said that, “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much  more serious than that.” Had he lived to...
WE ARE FOR THE HIGH JUMP  

WE ARE FOR THE HIGH JUMP  

“You’re for the high jump, boy!” Those are not words that we want to hear, for sure! If we do hear  them, then we are in trouble, serious trouble; we are going to be punished definitely, severely,  swiftly, in which case we would be best to move away from...
A MARATHON METAPHOR

A MARATHON METAPHOR

Many newspapers delight in coming up with very catchy, memorable, clever headlines to persuade  the reader to read the article that follows. One of the greatest examples must surely be one that was  printed in the Sun newspaper in the UK in 2000 when...