The Ripple Effect?
Sunday 22nd January 2023 may well go down in hockey as Black Sunday. For it was on this day that New Zealand’s Black Sticks who finished third in their World Cup pool with only one victory, came from behind against
An Opportunity For Change
Yesterday the President of the FIH Narinder Dhruv Batra resigned from his position as head of the world sport. He did the honourable thing. Faced with yet another court case in India, and having the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Drawing A Long Bow?
No doubt most of us can remember being told as a child not do something. Don’t open that box, don’t look in that cupboard. As soon as we were told not to do something it made many of us more
How the Mighty Have Fallen
Everyone knows that a coach’s life can often be a short one. It can also be an extremely stressful one. In fact there is the famous line in football that you are not a good coach until you have been
One Day You Are In, The Next You Are Out.
They say a week is a long time in Politics, but it would appear much can change in a month in sport. On June 11th the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced the nine men’s and women’s teams that were selected
