COACH CATCHER 

COACH CATCHER 

Increasingly in professional sport, we find that teams will no longer have a coach and an assistant  coach (or even coaches) but now will have numerous specialist coaches. In rugby we may have a  forwards defensive coach and a forwards attacking coach, a...
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!  

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!  

In a poll of forty-nine historians and political scientists, organised by the Chicago Tribune in 1982 to  rank all the Presidents of the United States, Abraham Lincoln came out on top though he was  assassinated while in office because of his stance against...
THE EGO HAS LANDED  

THE EGO HAS LANDED  

Many schools have an eagle in their crest; many speakers will encourage children to have an eagle  mentality; many school teams will call themselves Eagles. Presumably this is because eagles are seen  to be at the top of the bird world; they fly high and...
NOT KEEN TO BE A HERO 

NOT KEEN TO BE A HERO 

Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain who won the English Premier League seven times  and the FA Cup four times, famously missed out on their remarkable Champions League final victory  in 1999 as he was booked after thirty-four minutes of the...
WHAT A PAIN!

WHAT A PAIN!

“Oh what a circus! Oh what a show! Argentina has gone to town over the death of an actress called  Eva Perón”. We might well be familiar with those lines from the musical ‘Evita’, which tells the  powerful story of Eva Peron who was born into poverty,...