A COACH MUST COAX 

A COACH MUST COAX 

Mention the phrase ‘hair-dryer treatment’ and most sports followers will think immediately of one  name – Sir Alex Ferguson, the widely-acclaimed and highly-successful manager of Manchester  United for twenty-seven years. Alongside the phrase...
IS ANYTHING WORSE THAN LOSING? 

IS ANYTHING WORSE THAN LOSING? 

Ryan Cotty was capped forty-eight times for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team as a centre and  would no doubt have played many more times had he not played at the same time as a formidable  selection of centres, including Sonny Bill Williams, Ma’a...
IT NEVER ALWAYS GETS WORSE 

IT NEVER ALWAYS GETS WORSE 

In addition to the optimist and pessimist giving their views as to whether the figurative glass is half full or half-empty, we may have come across other perspectives, such as that the scientist says the  glass is completely full (of air and water), the engineer...
ANYONE FOR SECONDS? 

ANYONE FOR SECONDS? 

There was a tradition at a Hall of Residence of a historic university overseas that at dinners, if a  student wished to have seconds of any one of the three courses, he would hold his plate high in the  air and assistance would be forthcoming. The challenge...
FOREVER AND ANON 

FOREVER AND ANON 

So, what do the following have in common? Freddie Mercury, Magnus Magnusson, John Stephen  Akhwari, Winston Churchill, JRR Tolkien, Winnie the Pooh and a hockey umpire?   Freddie Mercury was the front man for the band Queen, one of whose classic hits...