by admin | Jul 15, 2024 | Sports Articles
WHEN Astroturf pitches were introduced to hockey back in the early 1980s, surveys were done measuring how much time the ball was in play in international matches on grass pitches compared to Astroturf pitches, with some staggering figures. On grass the ball was in...
by admin | Jul 15, 2024 | Sports Articles
Every now and then we hear sportspeople announcing their retirement from international sport, while they declare they are continuing to play for their club – the great Indian cricketer MS Dhoni was one of the latest to do so last year though he will...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
“The wonderful thing about Tiggers,” as any parent who has read AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh stories to his child (or watched the Disney films) will know, “is Tiggers are wonderful things”. Tigger lives with his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and bounces...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
Prior to the 1980s, international hockey matches were played on grass but thereafter all international matches (and subsequently all league matches) were played on the synthetic Astroturf pitches, where the ball ran smoother and players were less likely to...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
Bill Shankly, the fanatical soccer manager who reinvented Liverpool Football Club in the late 1960s, famously said that, “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” Had he lived to...
