Simon Orchard

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Simon Orchard: It’s time hockey umpires learnt the game

Hockey Paper staff - 21 February 2017

“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...

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Simon Orchard column: My long road back to my normal self

Hockey Paper staff - 20 December 2016

A little over a year ago, I was diagnosed with a generalised anxiety disorder. Roughly characterised, that means I have excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry. It can be about trivial things like what to have for dinner; or it...

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Hockey Matters: Has BT Sport broadened appeal of the sport in England?

Amsterdam -- Is English hockey getting value for its TV deal with BT Sport? The broadcaster holds the rights...

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Women’s Hockey World Cup diary: Goalkeepers, cards, cakes and anthems

Hockey Paper staff - 4 July 2022

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Hockey Matters: Has BT Sport broadened appeal of the sport in England?

Children, full-time job fail to deter Aniwaka Haumaha from Hockey World Cup return

Women’s Hockey World Cup: England has the ‘speed, skill and threats’ to beat New Zealand

Ireland hope to repel underdogs Chile at Women’s Hockey World Cup

Simon Orchard

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Hockey Matters: Has BT Sport broadened appeal of the sport in England?

Children, full-time job fail to deter Aniwaka Haumaha from Hockey World Cup return

Women’s Hockey World Cup: England has the ‘speed, skill and threats’ to beat New Zealand

Ireland hope to repel underdogs Chile at Women’s Hockey World Cup

Women’s Hockey World Cup diary: Goalkeepers, cards, cakes and anthems

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