Protecting the Integrity of Matches
At the start of 2017 football great Marco van Basten was advocating that FIFA look at adopting many of the rules of field hockey to improve the game as a spectacle. Yet maybe it is time that Hockey looked at
Sticking to the Letter of the Law
Whatever the sport the common cry from fans is that they want the rules or laws to be clear cut, and the officiating of those rules or laws to be consistent. Sadly some sports still leave many rules or laws
Putting The Game First
It was refreshing to read this week that Malaysian Women’s Hockey Coach Dharma Raj has offered to help any club looking to set up a women’s team free of charge. His reason being that he wants to grow the talent
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
Time to Review the Reviewers
The opening lines of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” could easily have been written with match officials in mind. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust
