South Africa

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

Podcast #86 – We Touch On The Ornery Topic Of Racism in Sport, and Also Sport Evolving Into Becoming Work.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

There are any number of “Days” created across a number of sports dedicated to try and raise awareness of social issues. Yet are they working? In this show, after having many organisations whose role is to help integration or to