EASE AND GRACE  

EASE AND GRACE  

There was a magical moment of sporting commentary on television many years ago when Tom  Watson and Jack Nicklaus were engaged in an epic, titanic battle at the top of the leaderboard of the  Open Golf Championship in 1977, a battle that became known as the...
A WINLESS WIN  

A WINLESS WIN  

The cricket World Cup Final of 2019 will be remembered for a long time by anyone who watched it.  It proved to be an astonishing, riveting, inspiring, confusing, thrilling, sporting, enthralling occasion  as history beckoned a winner. So, who did win,...
SEND HIM OFF! 

SEND HIM OFF! 

Red cards are quite common in professional sport but there have been some bizarre examples in  soccer. The shortest time before a player was sent off has various contenders: Giuseppe Lorenzo of  Bologna was sent off after ten seconds in 1990 for hitting a...
WHY PLAY SPORT WHEN YOU CAN WATCH IT ON T/V?

WHY PLAY SPORT WHEN YOU CAN WATCH IT ON T/V?

Right now many people are delighting in watching all the wonderful sport that is being shown on our  television screens – the soccer Afcon , the cricket World Cup, the Women’s soccer World Cup,  Wimbledon tennis, the four-nation Rugby Championship (and...
GET, GIVE, GO – GOAL!

GET, GIVE, GO – GOAL!

In a previous article we noted how the great Dutch soccer player, Johan Cruyff, lamented that  “playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.” So, let us make soccer, and indeed all sport, as  simple as possible. We do not need to make it...