sport & selling

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

One word for today; > Enjoyment Yesterday saw England comfortably put Australia to the sword. Building on their awesome championship winning Twenty20 World Cup campaign, they put to bed the utter shambles that was last year’s belittling at the hands of the old foe in the 50-over form. As

A delicious commentary compares people currently failing to handle pressure that have been able to in the past with those that still can. It majors on sport stars from the Telegraph’s Jim White [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7845717/Fabio-Capello-Tony-Hayward-and-Roger-Federer-The-men-unaccustomed-to-failure....html] . As a salesperson you are

After just two matches each team, the World Cup is taking an ominously Latin route. I buck the ridiculous English tendency to suffer inferiority in the face of Brazilian aura. Mainly because they seldom deserve what they achieve. Yet this year they stand apart and if it leads to the

Here’s a phrase I learned after watching a sports psychologist on Sky News [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/England-Coach-Fabio-Capello-Can-Use-Sports-Psychologist-Christian-Lattanzio-To-Assess-Robert-Green/Article/201006315650532?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15650532_England_Coach_Fabio_Capello_Can_Use_Sports_Psychologist_Christian_Lattanzio_To_Assess_