NTFS#148 – Parents at the Olympics, would you have yours there? If athletes are being asked to pay to attend World Championships, should administrators be given a free ticket? Will Television Save Test Cricket?

You win a place on a team at the Olympic Games, fulfilling a lifelong dream, do you let you parents come and watch? Will they be a distraction? This is not a new question. In fact many coaches have said

Quiet Now.

31 YEARS AGO The forward was bearing down on goal having entered the area from my left, I came off my line to close down the angle. He shot. My body smothered his effort, and the ball went out for

Air Raid Casulaties

During the mid 1980’s through to the mid 1990’s England FIFA World Cup Winner Jack Charlton, as coach of Ireland adopted a style of play that drew criticism, in spite of its success. He wanted the team to play a

Don’t Just Talk About It, Do It.

‘We must catch up.’ How many times do we all say this, but it rarely actually happens? Several generations of footballers in Western Australia both male and female have finished playing in the State League, or what is now the

No Time For Freebies

Who is sport for? Surely, it belongs to those who pay to play each week in leagues and competitions around the world, the same people who then pay their hard-earned cash to go and watch the professionals play. The game