Tag: Rod Gilmour
Can FIH and Hockey Pro League prosper amid economic impact?
"Sometimes", proclaimed the Daily Mail's chief sports writer Martin Samuel, "there is great benefit in obscurity. In relatively minor sports it allows hopeless administrators...
Teun de Nooijer’s my hero! Why Barry Middleton couldn’t go past...
Barry Middleton has finally been able to look back on his memorable hockey career, he tells Rod Gilmour
There would be times interviewing Barry Middleton...
World hockey keen to engage after European clubs fears
World hockey is keen to hold talks with European clubs following news that there was growing concern on the continent over the way the...
Women’s coach Mark Hager on GB Hockey isolation and love of...
Mark Hager, the Australian coach of the GB women's team, could easily have been living in solitude during the coronavirus pandemic, with no family,...
Belgium v Germany, EuroHockey 2019: The greatest hockey match?
Rod Gilmour witnessed a classic EuroHockey Championships last summer while semi-final will be remembered for a generation
Oh to be young members of HC Olympia,...
‘Domestic hockey is disjointed and we all need to get on...
Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh both enjoyed meteoric international careers, their grounding established in domestic hockey before the introduction of the full-time programme. In a...
Sam Ward helped me through struggles, admits GB star Harry Martin
Exclusive
Harry Martin, the Hampstead and GB midfielder, has revealed to The Hockey Paper that he struggled to cope after accidentally hitting team-mate Sam Ward...
GB Hockey’s Lizzie Neal: ‘Ballgirling helped me on journey to elite...
Five years ago at the Hockey Writers’ Awards, Lizzie Neal was asked about her aims after winning the junior prize. “My ambition is to...
Safety in hockey: We need immediate changes, says Olympian coach
Exclusive
A leading coach and two-time Olympian has called for immediate changes towards safety in the sport at junior level after expressing fears that the...
Is the reverse stick too dangerous for hockey?
THP comment
When we sent our last newsletter out following GB forward Sam Ward's injury, we never expected the deluge of responses that followed.
It is...
