Sam Ward’s high-profile injury in 2019 added urgency to considerations as to whether or not anything can be done to increase player safety in hockey, writes Chris Maloney from the USA
While wearing protective equipment can prove to be very...
By Andy Mair | Hockey Cam
Football, tennis and hockey are sports with obvious differences, but there is one common theme that runs through all of them, the use of video technology to minimise major errors by the talented but...
Every four years, it takes a Summer Games for explainer stories and ‘how is field hockey played?’ to resurface for the uninitiated.
Perhaps the most viewer friendly video we’ve come across is the one above from SBS Nation, which navigates...
It is a decade ago this month since the FIH introduced the penalty shoot-out rule in the sport at the Women’s Champions Challenge 2. And so the novelty of running from the 23m line and eight seconds to try...
By Richard Bright
Players will be handed a two-minute suspension for spitting or nose blowing without a hankerchief or tissue under new guidance for the 2020/21 English hockey season - with offenders left to clean up the affected area before...
As a coach at school and club level, much of my preparation for a season would be focused on drills, cones, bounce boards, enough practice and match balls and pitch availability, writes leading official Andy Mair.
But here’s a thought:...
By David Ellcock
In a recent Hockey Paper piece, I suggested that people should just try umpiring and that this might lead to their getting the bug and wanting to take the next step. But what does that next step...
There are a number of changes to the Outdoor Rules for the 2019/20 season - so be ready before your first game of the season. The key rule changes are summarised below, while players, coaches, umpires and officials are...
World Hockey chiefs hope that England Hockey will still introduce the four quarters rule across the domestic game after a decision to implement the ruling at national level only.
With time ticking until the opening weekend of this season, grass...
England Hockey have had the "145,000 going out to play each weekend" at the heart of its decision whether to implement the four quarters rule for next season.
"They are the people this is most important for, it is easy...
