sport & selling

It was lovely to be able to work from home yesterday afternoon and have the cricket on in the background. England Pakistan is finely balanced at the Oval. When the camera panned to the England dressing room, also Surrey home quarters, a huge quote is plastered in capitals on the

Charles van Commenee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_van_Commenee] is considered something of a hard task master. He’s the Dutchman who guided Denise Lewis to Heptathlon Olympic Gold in Sydney. In return, she named him ”Volcano”. He’s currently the British athletic team’s head honcho. With

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

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

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.