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...
How Come?

How Come?

Who would want to be a sports coach at a school? The answer might well be that a lot of people do. It is a dream job, working with young people, helping them develop, seeing their joy, delighting in their excitement, progressing their ability! Yes, and listening to...
Which is the real world?

Which is the real world?

In a recent interview before a league match that preceded a European Final in which his club was competing, the manager of Tottenham Hotspur, Ange Postecoglou, stated that “in a normal world, we would play our best players”, but on this occasion he did not want...