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French Inquiry

Today in Paris, the France Football Federation (FFF) were busy conducting an inquiry into the French players strike at the recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Afterwards, it emerged that the FFF (winners in 1998 and Runners-Up in 2006) had suspended Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka for 18 games, and Captain Patrice Evra (Manchester United) had received […]

Transformational Leadership

After a month of competition and drama, European Champions Spain won the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time. Amid joyous scenes at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday night, their victory was a triumph for quality and expression as well as reward for investment in people, process, leadership and philosophy. Barcelona […]

Creative Performance

The need for creativity in top sport is essential if consistently good results are to be experienced against quality opposition. Germany’s performance at the current FIFA World Cup in South Africa has been a joy to watch. Their zestfulness of youth, and the encouragement of dynamic, inter-changing play at high pace, allied to a strong commitment to […]

Systemic Failure

Whenever a professional sporting team experiences failure on a grand scale, an inquest begins, and the finger of blame gets pointed. Rarely do the key protagonists point the finger inwards in such situations, and a mass-scale process of self-protection kicks in. When things go wrong, who is to blame? Is it the Players, or is the Coach […]

Successful (Non) Interventions

The development of sporting excellence has consumed my thinking, and the majority of my physical activity since I was a small boy. The journey has been challenging, inspirational, contained moments as well as periods of despair, and created an unhealthy self-obsession at times. If anyone believes that a life in sport is romantic or an […]