Pressure and how it impacts on performance is an impossible thing to accurately quantify or control although there is no lack of trying and well paid ‘professionals’ on hand to assist. With Andy Murray, who I would argue is the greatest British sportsman of the last 50 years, our tennis appetite has been adequately provided…
An upside of my chosen profession is that I have not needed to lie for many years. And if not lie, then at least misrepresent. This is because I have not needed to prepare my Curriculum Vitae or Resume; perhaps the hardest document any of us are ever required to write. Our achievements laid bare…
Now that the clamour has died down and the sports writers are on to the Ashes – a quick word on our brand new Wimbledon champion. I say ‘our’ to be deliberately provocative to our cousins north of the border and I will come back to this point shortly. Not one to carp – but…