Cricket

Is This Really The End?

In sport players get dropped and captain’s lose their captaincy. That has been the same for decades, although since the dawn of the centralised contracts for International players the landscape has shifted. Rarely were players dropped despite a loss of

The Cost of Winning

Winning in Sport today s everything. Almost any sports fan or past player will have heard the famous line by the American sportswriter Grantland Rice, who famously wrote that “it matters not who won or lost, but how you played

NTFS #143 – Finding the Right Leaders, Insurance Changing Sport, and The Future of the Confederation.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

We are back again with another slightly longer than usual show. Thank you to all those who contacted us saying how much they enjoyed our last show and the interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Luneau-Daurignac all of you sharing his concern that

New Measures Only Scratching The Surface

Betting in sport has existed for well over a century. In fact in the 1800’s many sporting contests existed purely because of the opportunity to have a wager on the two opponents. Sometimes these events threw up some very odd

Are Too Many Substitutions Killing Sporting Contests?

Substitutions in sport are now the norm. However the big question is are they now in fact killing the contest between two teams? It is interesting to note that the Australian-based VFL/AFL resisted the idea of substitutes even for an