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A collection of 406 issues

Getting On Top Of Cricket Spin

Which words make the biggest impact from your pitch? As England’s cricket Summer ‘bio-bubble’ allows for two gripping three-Test series to take shape, I learned of a subtle yet key change-up in how English youngsters face the mysteries of spin bowling. Conventional wisdom traditionally has it that as the

Pre-Match Prep

65yo football commentator gets demoted from his 1998 appointment as a broadcaster’s Number One to its Number Two. Leaving aside any fervent belief that nobody should hold the top job for twenty-two years, whether ageism is running amok or what ought really constitute news nowadays, there is something positive

Alred Super-Coach Top Tip Trio

I caught an hour where Dave Alred [https://davealred.com/] talked through his approach to fostering improvement. He first came to public prominence back in 2003. As kicking coach to England rugby World Cup winning fly-half Jonny Wilkinson [http://salespodder.com/avoiding-jonnys-regret-zone/]. Here’s three of his current top-line pronouncements.

Focus On The Now Yes, With Half An Eye On Tomorrow

Yes, I love watching footie on telly. And in pubs. Yet almost all our usually revered but patently overpaid wind-filled pigs-bladder bashers (past and present) are tragically silent as the world either enters or continues coronavirus lockdown. In England the chief culprit is Professional Footballers Association (known as the players’

A Ref Never Changes Their Mind

Listening to the experience of a former international rugby captain (robbed of his position after a tabloid sting back in the day), he tut-tutted at hearing his modern-day counterpart telling a referee that they’d got a decision wrong. To précis, his wisdom can be summed up as; > rather

Football Throw-In Improvement Metric

The game of football has a set-piece that’s been shockingly overlooked on the training ground; the throw-in. You’ve had the odd ‘long-throw’ specialist down the years. Capable of creating havoc in the opponent’s box turning many a throw into a kind of corner kick. Yet that rare

A Kick Is Only As Good As Its Chase

Lovely to watch a dominant England display after three successive under-performances since bewildering New Zealand in last year’s rugby world cup semi. In their next home game, the Irish were duly steamrollered. England’s pair of first-half tries both came from defence fumbles around the Ireland in-goal area following

Never Let Up

As the deciding set got underway at the recent Men’s Aussie Open tennis Final, a moment from the tv coverage was caught by a broadcaster’s tweeted gif. Screenshot above as a full screen quote faded to show the legend of the game in the crowd who said it,

How Klopp Stays On Top

An outrageous EPL season is now beyond half-time. The runaway leaders Liverpool having the best ever run of any team in Europe’s so-called Big Five leagues, ever. 21 wins and 1 draw after 22 games. What makes it perhaps even more notable, is that the team suffered crushing disappointment

Spot The White-Ant

Thanks to continuing ripples from Aussie cricket cheating, I learn of white-anting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_anting]; > …an Australian term for the process of internal erosion of a foundation. It is often used in reference to groups such as political parties or organisations where information from group