Thursday, June 12, 2025

Rod Gilmour

The Hockey Paper's Editor. First covered international hockey at the 2010 Commonwealth Games - no better than a full house watching India play England - and has reported on the sport for the Daily Telegraph and other major newspapers ever since. Co-founded THP in 2016.

FIH Hockey Pro League: England teams face up to title hopes and relegation

Basement side England women face eight matches in 15 days to stave off the threat of Pro League relegation for the first time, while...

Is England Hockey set up as a ‘graduates programme’?

Do we expect senior players to keep playing for their country after an arduous Olympic cycle? Welcome time off centralised programmes is commonplace after...

Tess Howard as England Hockey captain? She’s the perfect players’ voice

England and GB’s long-term captaincy since London 2012 is an illustrious one: Kate Richardson-Walsh, Alex Danson and Hollie Pearne-Webb. These are big shoes to...

‘We need to reinvigorate it’: Harborne claim England Hockey cup glory after 122 years

On the same day when the English FA Cup final was being played, Harborne HC started early in the build-up to their biggest day...

Surbiton respond to England Hockey Cup withdrawals

A final failed to be played for the first time in the near 50-year history of the English women’s knockout cup after Surbiton withdrew...

Hollie Pearne-Webb retires as an England and GB hockey great

There was the spin and the scoop inside the post. Then the high fist pump before the moment dawned and Hollie Pearne-Webb let loose...

England Hockey Finals: Reading women and Surbiton men land surprise titles

Surbiton ended Old Georgians' three-year stronghold in English men's domestic hockey while Reading women won their first trophy since 2013 in the Premier Division...

Biba Mills: Meet the 16-year-old rising star of English club hockey

Tess Howard came off the pitch earlier this month and a smile quickly rose across the GB star’s face. That she was talking about...