Hockey

The Cost of Fast Food Sport

Every sports fan knows that at the elite level sport needs television. It is the television deals that inject the finances to keep the game afloat at the highest level. Yet in many cases those funds do not filter down

Time to Fulfil Potential in Malaysian Hockey

Malaysian Hockey is facing a very real dilemma, and one that is common in modern sport. It is a dilemma which in a country where manners and protocols are so important is enmeshed in cultural mores as well. In 2013

In the Spirit of Sport

The international Sports boycott of Pakistan has been having a high impact on the country. Several years ago the then Pakistan Hockey coach advised this writer that the sport was in crisis. With no nation prepared to go and play

Rules For All, Do They Work?

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has always claimed that the reason his organization has not introduced video replay technology to assist referees and ensure that less mistakes are made that may influence the result of matches, is that it cannot be

Referral System Worth Copying?

Having just returned from the Hockey India League in India where teams were allowed one referral to a video umpire per game, which if they were correct in their assessment of a situation they kept to use again, but lost