THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG  

THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG  

Sports teams aspiring to greatness face a difficult dilemma. In order to gain promotion from a lower  league they have to buy quality players (to improve their squad) but they will not be able to attract  the quality players until they do gain promotion. So...
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...