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
Are Too Many Substitutions Killing Sporting Contests?
Substitutions in sport are now the norm. However the big question is are they now in fact killing the contest between two teams? It is interesting to note that the Australian-based VFL/AFL resisted the idea of substitutes even for an
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
No More Heroes Any More
They say that the heroes you have from the time you are 13 years old are the heroes that stay with you the rest of your life. Hopefully you have paused and thought about that for a second, and contemplated
Always Easier to Blame the Coach
The resignation of England Rugby Union coach Stuart Lancaster can have come as no surprise to many. Yet should he have been the man to fall on is sword? Lancaster left the post according to the RFU, “by mutual consent.”
