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, below, to accompany the equipment.
He joked: "It's an old camera and...
"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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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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,...
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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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 reverse stick hit could lead to a fatality.
John Shaw, who played at the 1992 and...
