NTFS#148 – Parents at the Olympics, would you have yours there? If athletes are being asked to pay to attend World Championships, should administrators be given a free ticket? Will Television Save Test Cricket?

You win a place on a team at the Olympic Games, fulfilling a lifelong dream, do you let you parents come and watch? Will they be a distraction? This is not a new question. In fact many coaches have said

Air Raid Casulaties

During the mid 1980’s through to the mid 1990’s England FIFA World Cup Winner Jack Charlton, as coach of Ireland adopted a style of play that drew criticism, in spite of its success. He wanted the team to play a

Don’t Just Talk About It, Do It.

‘We must catch up.’ How many times do we all say this, but it rarely actually happens? Several generations of footballers in Western Australia both male and female have finished playing in the State League, or what is now the

No Time For Freebies

Who is sport for? Surely, it belongs to those who pay to play each week in leagues and competitions around the world, the same people who then pay their hard-earned cash to go and watch the professionals play. The game

Making a Simple Game Complicated

“Football is a simple game.” This line has been used for decades. After all, the object of the game is to get a ball into a goal in order to score. That goal can be an official, goal, two dustbins