Thursday, December 5, 2024

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.

Secret to Japan hockey women’s success? Scaring each other

Video recorder in hand, a Japanese hockey player hides behind a hotel doorway and menacingly jumps out in front of their foreign coach. Thankfully, this...

History! Italy women cause Hockey World Cup shock over China

Storico! proclaimed a jubilant Italian media on Sunday. Italy put 42 years in the Women's Hockey World Cup wilderness behind them in sensational style to...

Women’s Hockey World Cup: hard hits, goals and big crowds

Stoppages and play acting at a World Cup? Pah! Instead we got fast, free-flowing hockey as a fine opening day at the Women's Hockey...

Alex Danson: The making of GB Hockey and England women’s captain

Alex Danson has spent over half her life as an elite athlete playing for England and Great Britain. She has bore witness to the...

Women’s Hockey World Cup shirts: 16 nations ranked and assessed

In what is surely a hockey fashion first, we have decided to rank and rate all 16 competing nations' playing shirts at the 2018...

Argentina’s Delfina Merino set to light up women’s hockey World Cup

In February, when Delfina Merino won the female world player of the year award at the FIH Hockey Stars in Berlin, the winners' roll...

Women’s Hockey World Cup: I’m loving what I’m doing, says England’s Ellie Rayer

England's Ellie Rayer has fast-tracked from junior to senior hockey in the same manner that she plays the game. Rayer, 21, played at the 2016...

BT Sport’s Chris Hollins hopes more heroes are made at women’s Hockey World Cup

By Rod Gilmour As a teenager, self-confessed hockey lover Chris Hollins grew up during the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, saw Great Britain win bronze and...