Danger – Beware
“If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he’d have put grass up there” is a famous quote from the great football coach Brian Clough, when English clubs started to resort to the long-ball game. In other
The Price of Gold
We all know that top level sport is no longer about the contest, it is about money. It is about the money that success generates, be it sponsorship dollars, memberships, or television rights. In many of the less high profile
In Like Flynn
Errol Flynn is arguably the most globally well known Tasmanian. His reputation as a swashbuckler during the Golden Age of cinema has ensured his place in history. Hale Hockey club’s Liam Flynn would have to be close to the complete
Have Video Officials Killed Our Belief in Sport?
Claims by former Netherlands football coach Louis van Gaal that last year’s FIFA football World Cup in Qatar was rigged in order to allow one of the game’s greats Lionel Messi to win a World Cup have caused quite a
Time to Streamline Presentations?
The recent coverage of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest has to have been some of the best television coverage of a major sporting event in recent times, and helped Athletics immeasurably. It was slick, it was professional, and the
