Socrates special selection - No. 1. After churning out stories, thoughts, and philosophies from the weird and wild world of sport I thought it was time to dig out some of my favourites. If I were to create a top ten from Sportsocratic, this would be in there somewhere. Not because it's a brilliant piece of writing. I'm a philosopher...not a writer. I've, most likely, never … [Read more...]
Stop the NRL theatrics and play footy!
How many television sports broadcasters, journalists, pundits, podcasters and ex-players have ranted in the last forty-eight hours about the sin binning of Hudson Young and the subsequent penalty against Canberra? Well, let me be the one and only person in the whole world who says, “I don’t care what you all think. You’re just dead wrong.” For me, the penalty against the … [Read more...]
In sport – what’s more important? Fairness or money.
Who deserves the harshest consequences for unsporting behaviour? A serial offending ludicrously wealthy professional athlete or a homeless teenager with a lot of tough stuff going on in her life? That's what I asked myself as I was pondering the following questions. What is the primary role of sport? What is its most important function in the world? Is it a business? … [Read more...]
The NRL Bunker and forward passes – here’s the perfect solution!
Last week every newspaper, sports news web site and Rugby League media program across the land ran a “NRL has gotta do something about forward passes” story. Journalists and footy pundits were incensed. A recent run of tries scored from “blatant” forward passes got all those experts incensed and keyboards tapping. What a load of old bollocks. Most of the complaints … [Read more...]
Nathan’s Future – Will Cleary Jump Ships to The Super League?
I saw half a dozen media articles last week that suggested that Nathan Cleary is considering a possible future career jump to the Super League. Really? The Super League? I doubt it. He’s a talented bloke and, no doubt, money isn’t everything to the best Rugby league player in the world, but do the pundits seriously expect us to believe that Nathan would be willing to halve his … [Read more...]