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sport & selling

A collection of 402 issues

Gegenselling

With the bi-annual failure fest for an Englishman that is each international football tournament done, taking stock of the club season just completed there is only one real story. Yet in the wings perhaps this next coming season’s fairytale is already taking shape. Twelve months ago I was privileged

What's Your Project 56?

I’ve happened to be in countries other than my birthland during an olympiad. I didn’t imagine I could watch quite so much table tennis when in Singapore. Or root so loudly for the Silver Ferns ladies basketballers in New Zealand. Or be so infuriated by the refusal to

How Bungled Cricket Selection Can Help Your Bid

Appointment to a committee is most people’s idea of hell. Needless ceaseless ego driven compromise produces the apocryphal camel when a horse was the answer. I couldn’t believe an example of such deadly groupthink tried hard to scupper England’s cricket chances this past fortnight. Our best bowler

5 Selling Sins From England's Icelandic Football Humiliation

> L’incroyable fiasco anglais L’Equipe newspaper headline, Paris 28 June 2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So England crash out of yet another tournament. Hardly can it ever have been more humiliating. Well done, Iceland. As one former player quipped, the world’s most highly paid team were beaten by“a country with

Ranieri's Leicester Fearless Champion Selling

[http://www.skysports.com/football/news/30385/10267972/leicester-win-premier-league-how-they-did-it-differently] Finding Nessie and Elvis alive were officially as likely to happen. Yet Leicester City beat 5,000 to 1 odds. They only went and won the Premier League. So much has been written trying to dissect how the miracle became reality.

Avoiding Nike's $14 Billion Presentation Blunder

American sport. Really. There’s an obvious reason why no-one else plays them. I have though enjoyed basketball. Playing and spectating. My last exposure was crazy. Working in New York, 2012. Linsanity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Lin]. Fabulous. So I thought the recent play by Steph Curry worth

Copy Kloppo Creed

It’s quite the honeymoon German coach of Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp, is enjoying in English football. Fans, opponents and media alike all lavish praise. In the build up to the knife-edge Europa League second leg, I couldn’t help but mention his comments before a sucker punch one-nil loss away

What Does First-Time Masters Champion Do Next?

Danny Willett. The Yorkshirman thrilled Sunday night with his golfing triumph at Augusta. When landing home today I noted he shared what he’d been seen discussing with Alex Ferguson. As clubhouse celebrations took hold, the peerless Manchester United boss suggested he now try what they’d done in their

How Is Every Horse In Your Yard

I’m not a punter. Nor do I have much interest in the rather annoyingly termed “sport of kings”. Possibly because unelected nepotist rule continues as one of humanity’s ugliest pockmarks. In the run up to today’s Aintree Grand National I was force-fed an interview with a leading

When Was Your Last Jose Mourinho Six-Page Letter Pitch

The English sports pages are Jose potty this week. After getting the sack from Chelsea, it seems he covets a return with Manchester United. The Independent newspaper sent talking heads into overdrive with an exclusive [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/jose-mourinho-to-manchester-united-ex-chelsea-manager-six-page-love-letter-i-can-change-a6829971.html] ;Ex-Chelsea manager pens six-page love