Sport is nothing without the fans so I’m just not sure of how this is going to play out.

WE have another week under our belts training wise and the body is starting to move with purpose again. Although cases have risen slightly and one or two teams have had to call a halt to training due to a positive case in their clubs, overall we seem to be managing okay. The powers that […]

IT’S a Saturday morning and as I lay face down on the pitch gasping for air while at the same time trying to hold down the contents of my stomach, in my head I am having one of those personal battles. You know the point you get to where your body is aching and you […]

THE excitement is building all over the country as teams are back into the full swing of things on the pitches. For senior teams, it’s great to get back in full training with the whole squad. Even more importantly, it’s great to see the underage teams back training. When I drive down for a swim […]

AS another week ticks by, players are slowly but surely getting their bodies back to some sort of normality. Training will start to become a lot tougher as training-group numbers start to increase and managers ramp things up. I am still playing, or trying to anyway, so I have first-hand knowledge of what players are […]

AS we gear up for the resumption of group training at the end of the month, I’d like to look at the challenges facing every single player at this point in time. Rewind to when this pandemic gripped the world. From a sporting point of view we would have been well into our pre-season training. […]

WITH the way things are progressing, it seems that we may have some football activity before the year is out. We will have to wait and hope that we don’t see any increase in cases, but you would have to admit that things are looking positive at this point in time. Bearing in mind that […]

BEFORE I go into the crux of my debate this week, I’d first like to touch on where we are at the minute. Back in mid-March we were struck by a pandemic, something we have never seen before in our lifetime and we hope it’s something we never see again. Nobody, not even the smartest […]