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Time to Stop Cocooning Athletes

Anyone who follows a sport other than what are regarded as the major football codes in this country knows how distorted the reporting can be. When Not the Footy Show was launched back in 2005 we made a note of

Is All Sport Really A Business?

Sport in the 21st century we are told is big business. We are also told that sport is no longer about the contest, but about entertainment, and as we all know the entertainment business is a massive industry. However are

Too Much Sport? Is Quantity More Important than Quality?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” is part of the opening line of Charles Dickens famous novel “A Tale of Two Cities.”

Parity Not Charity

It is regrettable that so many aspects of life today are all about ticking boxes, and there is a pretence to satisfying perceived needs. Much of this stems from flawed funding models, which determine that organisations must comply with certain

If…

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” is the opening line and a half of the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. The end of that second line reads, “and blaming it on you.” There