SELECTION NOT ELECTION

SELECTION NOT ELECTION

Not being selected for the team that we have longed to play for (or indeed which we have longed for  our child to play for) may be felt as a massive disappointment to many. All our hopes and dreams,  our ambitions even, have been set on being selected for...
THE GREAT IMPOSTERS  

THE GREAT IMPOSTERS  

“Jarvo 69” this week hit the headlines when he strode out onto the famous Lord’s cricket ground  after lunch on the third day of the cricket test between England and India dressed as one of the  players and started to direct the Indian fielders to different...
YES WE CAN

YES WE CAN

Barack Obama rose to the position of President of the United States of America on the back of a  famous speech in New Hampshire in 2008, a speech that the American rapper will.i.am, the Black  Eyed Peas frontman, put to music with over thirty celebrity guest...
RUDYARD COACHING

RUDYARD COACHING

Many readers will be aware of the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled simply ‘If’ but may not  have connected the advice given in the poem to be appropriate for coaches. The fact is, if we are to  improve our players by improving them as people (as...
IMPROVE THE PERSON NOT THE PLAYER  

IMPROVE THE PERSON NOT THE PLAYER  

The first lady British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said that, “Being powerful is  like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!” The same is true for being  successful, especially in sport; if we have to tell people...