Rod Gilmour

Features

Suzy Petty hopes England Hockey learn from mistakes to help athlete wellbeing

Rod Gilmour - 14 May 2020

Suzy Petty hopes that changes she has helped enforce to the deselection process at England Hockey will aid future athletes after she revealed that she was dropped from the GB women's programme last November following an unexplained 10-minute meeting...

Club

The Alex Danson photo capturing ‘the best of hockey’

Rod Gilmour - 8 May 2020

When Koen Suyk replaced one of his old cameras a few months ago, the photography shop asked the veteran Dutch photographer for his superb image of Alex Danson to accompany the equipment. He joked: "It's an old camera and perhaps...

Features

Can FIH and Hockey Pro League prosper amid economic impact?

Rod Gilmour - 4 May 2020

"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 to flourish unquestioned." It was but a small item in his regular column, but it struck...

Features

Teun de Nooijer’s my hero! Why Barry Middleton couldn’t go past record

Rod Gilmour - 3 May 2020

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 over the years where you would find him, or will him even, to be in...

Europe

World hockey keen to engage after European clubs fears

Rod Gilmour - 27 April 2020

World hockey is keen to hold talks with European clubs following news that there was growing concern on the continent over the way the global game is run. The Hockey Paper exclusively reported in our last print issue that several...

Coaching

Women’s coach Mark Hager on GB Hockey isolation and love of animals

Rod Gilmour - 15 April 2020

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, cats or dogs for company in the small Berkshire village where he is currently renting. Luckily,...

EuroHockey

Belgium v Germany, EuroHockey 2019: The greatest hockey match?

Rod Gilmour - 12 April 2020

Rod Gilmour witnessed a classic European Hockey Championships 2019 while the semi-final will be remembered for a generation Oh to be young members of HC Olympia, the burgeoning hockey club which usually has the pitch at Wilrijkse Plein Sports Centre,...

Features

Richardson-Walsh: ‘English domestic hockey is disjointed and we all need to get on same page’

Rod Gilmour - 25 March 2020

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 wide-ranging conversation with THP editor Rod Gilmour, the gold medal-winning couple dissected the future of...

Features

Sam Ward helped me through struggles, admits GB star Harry Martin

Rod Gilmour - 25 February 2020

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 in the face during GB’s Olympic qualifier win over Malaysia in November. But the GB star,...

Features

GB Hockey’s Lizzie Neal: ‘Ballgirling helped me on journey to elite player’

Rod Gilmour - 28 January 2020

Five years ago at the Hockey Writers’ Awards, Lizzie Neal was asked about her aims after winning the junior prize. “My ambition is to play at the 2020 Olympics – maybe if that’s a bit early, the one after,”...

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