Category Archives: Sport

Coronaclassical 27: Not Just Cricket

Opera and sport face up to similar challenges – and for the same fundamental reason. Continue reading

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Giving It Away: Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales

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A solution to No Balls

Because you quite literally have to draw the line somewhere. Continue reading

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Inarticulacy of a Football Fan

A lot of people have written about the death of Gary Speed over the last few days, and most of them far more eloquently and with greater personal knowledge than I ever could. I grew up watching Gary Speed playing … Continue reading

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Between the Ears

In terms of professional performance, there is a technique for everything, and everything is technique. Continue reading

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