Handle hard better

Handle hard better

There is a classic comedy sketch from a programme broadcast in 1976 by The Two Ronnies in which a customer enters a hardware store and asks the salesperson for four candles, but by the customer’s accent the salesperson thinks he is saying fork handles. The...
Heart and hustle

Heart and hustle

For many people, life, and indeed sport, is a paradox. By that we mean that life (or maybe more significantly, sport) seems to be filled with seemingly absurd and contradictory statements and events which, for all their absurdity, are in fact true. Such paradoxes...