sport & selling

In a brashly titled interview piece in the telegraph, Aussie Formula One pilot Mark Webber explains why he’s a winner [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorsport/7890191/Mark-Webber-why-Im-a-winner.html] . At the time of chatting, he’d won more races than anyone else so far this season. Here are

In the aftermath of an extraordinary major championship win, I noticed this paragraph on a BBC blog [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/robhodgetts/2010/07/star_shrek_goes_beyond_final_f.html] . > Open champion Louis Oosthuizen reckons he has a problem concentrating. To re-focus he stares on a red

I just saw golf Major winner and man responsible for changing the course of the now awesome Ryder Cup, Tony Jacklin, deliver his thoughts ahead of the concluding round of the 2010 Open Championship. South African Louis Oosthuizen enjoyed a four-stroke lead going into the final day. Jacklin’s advice

As the Open golf chugged along to its unusually inevitable, and for new champ Oosthuizen delightfully dominant, conclusion, former Ryder Cup victor Mark James was providing dazzlingly dry-witted commentary. He divulged that his caddy when playing in America, “Adam”, in his ‘zen-like manner’, used to remind him, > “the pin is

Mark Cavendish [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mattslater/2010/07/mark_cavendish_the_manx_myster.html] starts the Tour de France tomorrow aiming to win the Green Jersey. After 4,000km in 3 weeks, he came within a whisker of this last year, the prize for the top sprinter.

I really must try and make this my last football post for a while. I need to move on! Nevertheless, the 38th minute goal that was incorrectly not allowed will be known to just about every single person on the planet by now in the England Germany last 16 World

Another football-related musing. Sorry. I’m still hurting. Holding midfielders. The talk of the tournament as Brazil’s coach Dunga deploys two of them. Amazingly devastatingly effective, they even provide huge attacking impetus. Former England internationals on pundit duty in S Africa, John Barnes and Gary Mabbutt, couldn’t stop

I’m trying to move on from England’s disastrous World Cup. Please bear with me during this difficult time. Still stuck in the half-Nelson of despair, I was yesterday discussing formations and flexibility. The second time England were ever humiliated was a double thrashing at the hands of Hungary.

What’s the sales department equivalent of a football coach? The obvious answer is the boss, the CSO, the sales manager. Yet on further thought, it is more typically someone else on the sidelines. Not necessarily owning top-line responsibility, even small sales outfits can often have an informal role filled

Not one given to spending time with American sport, I was intrigued to see basketballer Kobe Bryant enthuse about football during a CNN interview in S Africa at the World Cup. An avid AC Milan fan, he also played in goal as a lad. He’s just won a fifth