by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
People often say that parenting is the hardest job in the world. It is interesting in that regard because, unlike every other job for which we might apply or be engaged in, to become a parent there is no application process, no interview (“So, tell us, why do you want...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
At the end of a recent sporting fixture between two rival schools, parents of one of the schools, who had clearly been drinking for much of the day and subsequently making a lot of embarrassing comments very loudly throughout the match, came forward from where they...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
A favourite piece of graffiti of a previous generation said, “Jesus saves” after which a wise crack had added “And Messi nets the rebound”. But then another similar piece of graffiti stated that “Jesus is the answer” to which someone else had added, “It depends what...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
We tend not to associate poetry and sport; indeed, we will not be aware of many sportsmen quoting, let alone writing, poetry. However, in a previous article we noted that Alfred Lord Tennyson, the great English Romantic poet, had an impact much later on tennis....
