A revealing read (behind The Cricketer’s paywall).
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
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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“…and 10 of your own”
For reasons too mundane to detail, I have paid several visits to the Nursery Pavilion at Lord’s over the last fortnight.
The Nursery “Pavilion“ isn’t really a pavilion, in the cricket sense, but actually a corporate hospitality venue, tastefully decorated with a selection of cricketing quotes, insightful, funny, and satirical.
One, attributed to G H Hardy, caught my attention.
Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and 10 of your own.
And I felt obliged to defend the honour of the game I have played for more than 50 years, and coached now for 15.
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