Another happy find from Football punditry. This time via a chopper centre-half that used to revel in pinching the lovehandles of opposing strikers. He referred to the importance of putting in a “reducer”. To him, this is a tackle you make that stops the opposition mounting an attack. It’s
In the week the first tranche of European qualifiers for next year’s football’s world cup are all confirmed, I saw a touch of insight into the English FA. It emerged when presenting Booby Charlton with the honour of naming a training pitch after him at the no-expense-spared St
Two similar stories crossed my screens this week about winning ways to take over a new team. Today’s is from the all-conquering Arsenal football club under the early Wenger years. Tomorrow’s is from a supposed ‘turnaround’ at denim pioneers Levi’s. Football team owners are forever changing their
After catching possibly the only interesting moment to happen in F1 motor racing live this year – the start of the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix (thank you, rain) – when searching for “reaction” [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/41299491] after the paint had (maybe) dried (namely hoping for a Vettel
Well. Hardly news if you’re bottom of the log. Yet recent reminders of salesroom scoreboards (from diverse as Wales [http://salespodder.com/modern-call-centre-still-likes-old-school-scoreboards/] and a Hollywood Wolf [http://salespodder.com/at-least-the-bad-guys-from-wolf-of-wall-st-love-their-scoreboards/] ) shine my spotlight on what exactly is it that gets written on the whiteboard day in, day out.