THE BEAUTIFUL MIND GAME
Football is a common denominator that acts like a language connecting millions of people across the world. It creates interest and sparks emotions in a way that regular conversations usually fail to do.
THE BEAUTIFUL MIND GAME takes metaphors and tactics from the pitch and applies them to work and home life in a powerful coaching experience.
The book accurately describes the life of football.
Chief Executive, Reading Football Club
Describes the influences of the game from a fan’s perspective. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!
Former Captain, Tottenham Hotspur
Yes mate, I like it.
Footballer for Arsenal, 2008-2018
The final (part 1)
Window Shut, Bullying Over 2nd Sep 2013
You’re up but You’re Down
Lessons from Leicester
This week the biggest English football competition was won by Leicester City. This was highly unexpected…
The Glass Ceiling Stadium
The Foundations of Football Identity lie Deeper than Those Of The Stadia
The Field of Gove Dreams – an un-level playing surface.
From Hare to Tortoise Eternity
YOU MAKE AN OLD MAN VERY HAPPY
This is code for saying that I kicked opponents and demonstrated toughness and gamesmanship. My colleagues liked it and to be honest, I enjoyed their plaudits.
To be a gay footballer or not, that really is not the issue in question.
Keep Your Friends Close. Your Enemies Closer Still
The positive powers of football vs. the darker side within
“Allow me to beat myself up -it’ll save you the trouble”. 8th October 2013
False Starts?
Back in the Saddle again
Creating a club culture for the England Team
The changing shape of the promised land.
(Risk) Aversion Therapy
You swapped supplier negotiations, cash-flow headaches and being squeezed by larger organisations for a salary, pension, and the chance to help people directly. Not a bad trade.”
Football; The sport of Apollo. It’s a messenger that speeds up when the journey’s end is near
The Language of Football| Blog 2010
Walk This Way. Life lessons from Walking Football
One Hundred
My attention span and train-of-thought have definitely reduced during the pandemic, I believe the major reason for this is that I have had fewer one to one conversations with people outside my bubble
The World Cup Who Fell To Earth (is Joe Lycett a bully?)
If he was entirely fair in picking on David Beckham. His reasoning is that Beckham has benefited financially and image-wise as a gay icon, he even wore a dress once, and according to Lycett, ought to have condemned both FIFA and Qatar.
WFH, xG and introducing xEMx ©
despite having doubts about these metrics, I’m unashamedly jumping on the bandwagon and taking this opportunity to introduce my own workplace metric, Expected Emotional Exchange© or xEMx ©
A pre-echo. The sun sets, the game rises
The Language of Football| Blog 2012
Six Nil: Under control and not so bad.
Women were a deep mystery to me as I grew up. I either avoided them or over-killed (myself) with them.
A man’s game or the people’s sport? At last football has a female manager and we can all progress.
Beginnings of Ends, Ends of Beginnings, Tortoises, Hares and all that…
Not My World Cup
global darlings Brazil, conceded seven goals to the eventual victors Germany. Everything else has been wisely forgotten