South Africa

Suspended In Time

In every sport where there is a sin-bin teams will tell you that they are disadvantaged the most when forced to be a player down. Fans will tell you that it completely changes the game. Apart from the team that

Who Is Really To Blame?

The English sports media are like a used car salesman. Before every major sporting event they will talk up their team or their athletes and tell everyone who wants to listen how they are going to win, that there is

No Preparation Like Good Technique

Cricket has always been a dangerous game. It has resulted in serious injury and also unfortunately some deaths over the last 400 years. The last forty years have seen an increase in the quality and options of protective equipment, as

Space Invaders – Time to Go Back in Time

Watching the Wallabies play Argentina’s Los Pumas at the weekend made me realise that I had a privileged childhood. I was fortunate to grow up in the 1970’s and 1980’s. A time when rugby had every right to claim to

Making It Count.

In individual sporting contests there is no need for a Player of the Match award, as the event or the tournament is summed up by the term, ‘to the victor go the spoils.’ When it comes to team sports often