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
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
Taking The Edge Off Their Game
The Hockey World League semi finals currently taking place in London, Brussels and soon Johannesburg are a means of qualifying for next year’s Hockey World Cup. All the teams that make the semi finals qualify for the World Cup. In
Pro League Must be Supported, Despite Disappointments
Whenever there is a selection process for anything there will always be someone upset at being left out. The International Hockey Federation announced on the weekend the nine men’s and nine women’s teams to contest their new Pro League competition
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
