by admin | Jun 8, 2025 | Education Articles
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...
by admin | Jun 8, 2025 | Education Articles
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...
by admin | Jun 1, 2025 | Sports Articles
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...
by admin | Jun 1, 2025 | Education Articles
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...
by admin | May 25, 2025 | Sports Articles
THERE are various theories as to when the first Beauty Contest was held, ranging from anywhere in the 1800s — some sources claim it was in the form of a medieval joust re-enactment in 1839 when they crowned a young woman as the “Queen of Beauty”. Others see it...
