NTFS #144 – Part 1 of an Interview With a Pioneer Of Sport for the Blind, Ron Anderson, The Point of Under Age World Cups, and Is Sport now the Opium of the People.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

We have interviewed some amazing people over the past 20 years on Not The Footy Show and in this episode we catch up with yet another remarkable individual. Ron Anderson lost his sight in his early 30’s, and as a

Talent Management

There are no end of quotes that relate to wasted talent. No matter what area of life you look at there will always be talented people. Some look to use that talent, others choose not to, while some simply lack

Goals and Strategy, Does Football Australia Have One With the Socceroos?

Australian sport has in the main benefitted from being a country built on migration when it comes to sport. Over the years in many sports fans have witnessed the attributes that have been instilled in many by their parents and

Is This Really The End?

In sport players get dropped and captain’s lose their captaincy. That has been the same for decades, although since the dawn of the centralised contracts for International players the landscape has shifted. Rarely were players dropped despite a loss of

Back To The Drawing Board?

No doubt many modern day football fans will not have heard of the “Disgrace of Gijón” and the ramifications it had on the World Cup Finals. If they did they maybe would have thought a little harder about the final

Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?

The FIFA World Cup is the most watched sporting event there is. Being held every four years there is usually an excitement as another event approaches. Even though only eight countries have won the World Cup in 22 tournaments, and