Come on you lot. Who can match the profiles provided below with the people shown in the pictures. I will come up with a fancy prize for the first person to comment with the correct matches. It's pretty easy really. Profiles 1. This character said they would gladly give up their successful career to get just one cap playing for their country in rugby 2. For a short … [Read more...]
Not everyone is worth listening to… no. 4.
As promised, here is the big mid issue update. Don’t miss the Mystery Dad’s extraordinary run-down of the life of an emerging London soccer player. Any parent with a child interested in taking a sporting career to the “next step” should not miss this insider’s glimpse and true story! Comedian, writer and artist, Mandy Nolan, looks at kids and their soccer exploits from a … [Read more...]
Not everyone is worth listening to 3.
Welcome. I hope all you are prepared for a change in editorial policy. A change for the better in terms of providing you guys with interesting, up to the minute, reading that is. This issue took ages to get together. It missed one or two deadlines so to speak. It has some pretty good content I reckon, but there is still more great stuff to come. So there is the change. I’ve … [Read more...]
Not Everyone is Worth Listening to 2.
Before giving a run-down of some of the stories we have for you in this issue of Sportsocratic I want to mention a couple of things I have been thinking about… things that very rarely get mentioned in the pages of sports magazines and web sites. Perhaps these are things that might be worth exploring in upcoming issues. Last week I heard a bloke on ABC Radio National talk … [Read more...]
Not everyone is worth listening to 1.
Welcome to the very first posting of Sportsocratic. I hope you get a kick out of the content. In this “Not everyone is worth listening to” section I get my chance to have an editorial spray at either a subject in the news that has pissed me off or to fill you in a on some of the things that crop up in this edition of Sportsocratic that I think are important. In other words… … [Read more...]