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sport & selling

A collection of 415 issues

Don't Park The Bus

This has long been a phrase associated with football teams that lack ambition. When confronted by what they deem superior opponents, they camp out on the edge of their own penalty area, try to snuff out all attacking creativity from the other team, and hope to sneak victory through a

How You Play The Ball

As England put the circuit’s current comedy side, the Windies, to the sword in the first test, professional Yorkshireman Geoff Boycott analysed the unorthodox technique of present world number one batsman Chanderpaul. He stands almost front-on to the bowler, rather than more traditional side-on stances. Yet he is an

Ball Possession Determines Everything

So, England have a new football manager. With the Euros only a few days away, expectations are, for once, surprisingly low. Our new man in “the impossible job” seems to be a convert [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/9248269/New-England-manager-Roy-Hodgson-took-his-inspiration-from-Allen-Wades-revolutionary-coaching-book.html] to a sixties revolutionary, one-time

Box Your Chimp

I cheered on Ronnie O’Sullivan all the way for his fourth Snooker World Title over the weekend. As with many sprinkled with genius, he’s a fruitloop. The most naturally gifted person ever to bridge upon the green baize has shown remarkable focus (for him) since deploying the services

Newton's Kicking Force

Very into this year’s Super Rugby. Especially as my team, Cape Town’s Stormers, have a cracking chance of glory. The Bloem franchise are notable this season for their new young kicking sensation [http://www.sportlive.co.za/rugby/superrugby/article4808223.ece]. He’s not a big lad by

Where History Begins

[/content/images/wordpress/2012/05/where-history-begins-loughborough-wallslogans.jpg] Here’s world-leading sentiments from Team GB’s main training camp [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9222204/London-2012-Olympics-Inside-the-medal-factory-of-Team-GB-at-Loughborough-University.html] ahead of the Olympics. (Remember, the country came a record beating fourth in Beijing through this thinking). > What we have tried

Associator vs Dissociator

Another bank holiday weekend post. It’s a five day break here in Cape Town. I’ve been going for the odd run along the prom and like I always have done, I listen to music all the way. I find it helps get over those difficult first few minutes.

Process Equipment Results

I did something Sunday I do rarely these days. I planned to watch a grand prix. For over a decade the paint drying on a nearby ceiling has been more interesting. Yet all of a sudden, the pants can wet. There were flashes of it last year. Jenson Button’s

Constant Video Reminders

English rugby club Saracens clearly want to break the mould. They appear to deliberately seek out innovation [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/06/saracens-ipads-statistics-heineken-cup] . There’s a couple of things about this that interests the salesman in me. Overall, how is any salesforce trying to introduce innovation

Suggestopedia

I was gripped by the climax of golf’s US Masters. What a blight that the host club themselves are such disgraceful dinosaurs. Still, although the winner was an American, rather than my favourite tractor boy from near Cape Town, Louis Oosthuizen, it was an American of which we can