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Category: other sports

  • Emma Raducanu is looking for a new coach…again

    Emma Raducanu is looking for a new coach…again

    BBC Sport running another story about Emma Raducanu, the British tennis player US Open Champion in 2021, once again looking for a new coach.

    Emma Raducanu is ranked 24 in the world (March 2026), her highest ranking since 2022.
    Raducanu to ‘tap into a few people’ over coaching — BBC Sport, March 5, 2026

    Raducanu parted company with coach Francisco Roig after January’s Australian Open — the Spaniard was the seventh full-time coach Raducanu had worked with since her US Open win.

    There is an unpleasant undercurrent to a lot of the comments BTL, and not a lot of understanding of how player-coach relationships can go wrong. I do wonder how many of them have ever coached, at any level, let alone a Grand Slam winner?

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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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  • Watching live football!

    Watching live football!

    At the weekend, I watched London Seaward FC play Hackney Women’s FC in the Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

    A proper cup tie — skill, energy, drama. Hackney came back strongly in the second half, after their keeper was sent off, but the extra player counted in the end as Seaward ran out 3-1 winners.

    Although my football coaching badge lapsed 7 years ago, I couldn’t help watching the patterns of play. And wondering what Seaward’s coaches (and data analyst) might have made of the game.

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