The Teesra

Month: March 2025

  • Myths of Sports Coaching, cricket edition

    Back in December 2024, ECB Coaches Association (ECB CA) members were invited to attend a webinar entitled “Talking talent and inclusion” featuring the ECB’s recently appointed Pathway Inclusion Officers (PIOs).

    The drive to make the pathway more inclusive is a hugely important project, for the ECB and for the game itself. But I had heard a (far from positive) review of a PIO presentation to a group of CAG coaches earlier in 2024, and was very interested to find out what was being said.

    I missed the original webinar, unfortunately (Wednesday has been a regular work night for me, right through the off-season), and the recording has yet to be posted to the ECB CA website, but what I assume must be a transcript † of the webinar has recently been posted for ECB Coaches Association members. For such an important initiative, the published article contains several contentious, un-evidenced, claims, which apparently went unchallenged on the night.

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  • ECB & ICEC Recommendations — a subtle “re-interpretation”?

    A revealing read (behind The Cricketer’s paywall).

    How will ICEC affect age group cricket? County coaches speak out | ✍️ @oscarress.bsky.social

    — The Cricketer (@thecricketer.com) 2025-02-07T09:42:19.953Z

    Taken alongside the ECB’s Talent Pathway Action Plan, October 2024, it shows how the ECB have re-interpreted one ICEC recommendation and, apparently, disregarded another.

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  • Review — Football, The People’s Shame: How to Revolutionise a National Sport

    Review — Football, The People’s Shame: How to Revolutionise a National Sport

    A fascinating read on the “theft” of a national sport, and how the “People’s Shame” could be reversed.

    Football has always been the people’s game, so how can we reclaim it from the corporations and oligarchs who have stolen it from us?

    Micky P Kerr, in “Football, the People’s Shame”

    Starting with an historical perspective on the (professional) game, and how its governance has diverged so far from the fans, Kerr presents a radical proposal to reclaim the game for the people, and a discussion of the political climate needed to facilitate such a radical change.

    I am not an economist or a political scientist, so I don’t feel at all qualified to comment on Kerr’s proposals to reclaim the people’s game. Do read the book!

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