Whenever a professional sporting team experiences failure on a grand scale, an inquest begins, and the finger of blame gets pointed. Rarely do the key protagonists point the finger inwards in such situations, and a mass-scale process of self-protection kicks in. When things go wrong, who is to blame? Is it the Players, or is the Coach [...]
The development of sporting excellence has consumed my thinking, and the majority of my physical activity since I was a small boy. The journey has been challenging, inspirational, contained moments as well as periods of despair, and created an unhealthy self-obsession at times. If anyone believes that a life in sport is romantic or an [...]
