Manager

Managing or Coaching? Or a Combination of the Two?

The late Shane Warne famously quipped “a coach is something you get on to travel to and from the ground.” The dig was aimed at Australian cricket coach John Buchanan. On another occasion he was reported as saying that “Coaching

Is Succession the Key To Success?

For a long time now sports fans have been told that sport is now a business. It is no longer simply about the sporting contest, it is supposedly about the whole package, which falls into the business of entertainment. The

The Four Year Cycle, Is It Holding Sports Back?

Everyone knows that today sport is big business. The money tied up in sport is phenomenal, some would say obscene when you look at areas in our everyday lives that are desperate for money, education and health being two. To

Ripping Up The Rules.

Imagine your sport without any rules. It would be complete mayhem. Even when kids play their own games they create an imaginary boundary along the edge of their playing area, they have jumpers an equal distance apart for goals, if

The Demise of The Manager

Has the dawn of the coach seen the demise of the manager, and as a result impacted on teams and clubs? Football fans of all ages know the names of the great managers in the game, the likes of Sir