TALKING A GOOD GAME  

TALKING A GOOD GAME  

There are good sports commentators and there are bad sports commentators. By “bad”, we mean  those who say the obvious or indeed opposite of what is meant. One athletics commentator stated  that, “There’s going to be a real ding-dong when the...
GO ALL  

GO ALL  

“I swear you will never see anything like this again!” Those words, spoken with deep passion over  and transmitted round the world ten years ago by a football commentator, will be familiar to some  readers; indeed, for many, the words will be deeply embedded...
SMALL GAME  

SMALL GAME  

Everyone loves to talk about and see the Big Five of elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhinoceros –  there is an excitement, a danger, a sense of awe about doing so that captures the heart and soul of  us all. In thinking thus, we are often inclined to...
BIG GAME

BIG GAME

Cecil the lion became an international celebrity in 2015, bringing the world’s attention firmly on  Zimbabwe, for all the wrong reasons. The lion was killed by an overseas hunter with two arrows,  with his trophy head being taken back to the US. For those...
GAME FOR A LAUGH   

GAME FOR A LAUGH   

Who would be a sports coach? Who would wish to be a sportsman? Who indeed would be a sports  commentator? In the heat of the moment, they are required to make a comment in public and the  first thing to come into their head is not always the wisest. As a...