“Come on now, celebration Let's all celebrate and have a good time Celebration We gonna celebrate and have a good time” ~ Kool and the Gang 1980 As most of us return to work this January after the year end holidays, a typical greeting in the UK is, “How did you celebrate New Years?” [...]
When I moved to the UK some 25 years ago, the Premier League of Football was just getting started. I remember laughing at the physios running onto the pitch and applying, what the television commentators jokingly called, “a magic sponge.” While physiotherapists and Sports Medicine have made tremendous progress since then, the sponge applied [...]
“It is health that is real wealth not pieces of gold and silver.” ~Mahatma Gandhi When the top 100 global athletes from both team and individual sports are able to command annual earnings between $25 million and $250 million (Forbes) every advantage is constantly explored by agents, coaches and sports scientists to maximise their [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around… One of the most important mathematicians of medieval Europe came to publish in 1202 the beauty and simplicity of Arabic Hindu numerals, as a better replacement for the, then more popular, Roman Numerals. At the beginning of the 13th Century discoveries and commerce in Europe were impeded by the [...]
More frequently we read about leaders in large public organisations abusing their powerful leadership position. They are not able to manage their power and became greedy for money and fall down the corruption trap. A recent example was some of the FIFA leaders who have reportedly accepted bribes exceeding $150 million. The British historian, Lord [...]
Andy Murray of Britain hits a return to Tommy Robredo of Spain during their men's singles final match at the Shenzhen Open tennis tournament in Shenzhen, Guangdong province September 28, 2014. Murray saved five match points before beating Robredo 5-7 7-6(9) 6-1 to win the Shenzhen Open in China on Sunday, as the Briton [...]
