At the Women’s Hockey World Cup there will be, for the first time, a mixture of both genders officiating to reinforce the sport's ‘Equally Amazing’ values. There will be a total of 25 officials from 14 countries appointed, representing...
By The Hockey Paper
The football World Cup has provided plenty of entertainment in Russia - and confusion in equal numbers when it's come to the video referee (VAR), football's first use of video technology in a bid to reach...
By The Hockey Paper
"India is a closed chapter now," Pakistan coach Roelant Oltmans, who left the Indian set up last year, told reporters on Saturday.
The Commonwealth Games pool encounter against the two old rivals was always going to have...
The FIH, hockey's international governing body, was formed in 1924, largely in response to the sport being left out of the Paris Olympics of that year. Ever since then, one of FIH's primary aims has been to maintain hockey's...
BY ROD GILMOUR
Tommy Alexander, the Reading goalkeeper, has called for video referrals to be implemented at major events such as the Super 6s finals.
Reading were denied a berth in the recent men’s indoor final in controversial circumstances after East...
“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, they just don’t know the game”, the great Bill Shankly once said. I have to say I agree with the former Scottish footballer and ex-Liverpool manager wholeheartedly.
Many top whistle-blowers...
Those watching English national league premier division matches this season, or international hockey over the summer, will have noticed a significant change in play – the carrying out of an action that is specifically prohibited in the Rules of...
LONDON, August 9 - Julie Ashton-Lucy and Lisa Roach will umpire Friday's women's hockey final between Netherlands and Argentina.See attached for full appointment list.
LONDON, 23 July - Facts and figures for hockey at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
1,600,000 - pieces of scaffolding used to construct the Riverbank Arena.
20,240 - litres of water (20.24m³) used in 11 minutes of pitch watering.
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Hockeyroos coach Adam Commens and his Dutch counterpart Max Caldas, who has coached in WA and played National League for New South Wales, have both named Great Britain as favourites for Olympic goldDespite their disappointing performance in the Investec...