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The Four Year Cycle, Is It Holding Sports Back?

Everyone knows that today sport is big business. The money tied up in sport is phenomenal, some would say obscene when you look at areas in our everyday lives that are desperate for money, education and health being two. To

Ripping Up The Rules.

Imagine your sport without any rules. It would be complete mayhem. Even when kids play their own games they create an imaginary boundary along the edge of their playing area, they have jumpers an equal distance apart for goals, if

The Demise of The Manager

Has the dawn of the coach seen the demise of the manager, and as a result impacted on teams and clubs? Football fans of all ages know the names of the great managers in the game, the likes of Sir

The Competition for Dollars, Who Will be Disqualified

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games a series of images were used to embody what is known as the Olympic Spirit. One such image was of Tanzanian Marathon runner John Akwhari who in Mexico in 1968 famously came staggering into

Let the Children Play and The Coaches Coach

It is becoming an accepted fact that today’s young people do not take criticism well. Which means coaching young people has become much harder than it was in the past. Coaching the very young is still about giving children the