Penalty

The Cost of Winning

Winning in Sport today s everything. Almost any sports fan or past player will have heard the famous line by the American sportswriter Grantland Rice, who famously wrote that “it matters not who won or lost, but how you played

Penalties – Who is Really Being Penalised?

When it comes to sport a penalty is invariably a decision that goes against a defending team. The aim is to penalise them, and give an advantage to the attacking team. In football a penalty often results in a goal.

The Show Must Go On

Any sports fan will tell you that they never want to see a player get injured, least of all one of the best players. Last week news broke that Australia’s women’s football captain Sam Kerr had injured her anterior cruciate

Is It Time To Review Off Field Decisions?

For over a century in a myriad of sports players would experience decisions going against them in games, but over a season it would often even itself out, as some decisions would end up going your way.  There have been

No Sport For Scoundrels

‘You do the crime, You do the time.’ That line has been around for decades. In sport it should be no different. In football if you trip a player as he is running through to score, you concede a penalty,