With the first weekend of the Hockey World Cup all done and dusted, I’ve picked a few bits and pieces that caught my eye, piqued my interest or things you could’ve missed at the time.
This is not meant to be especially analytical or telling the story of the tournament, more just things that made me stop and take note. Enjoy.
Tournaments in men’s hockey don’t come much more competitive than the EuroHockey Championships. All of the top five ranked nations in world hockey are set to compete in the competition which gets going in Germany next weekend.
Continue readingLily Owsley knows what it feels like to taste success at the EuroHockey Championships. In 2015 in only her second Euros, she scored in the final as England saw off the Netherlands in a shootout to pick up a glorious gold medal in front of a partisan home crowd in London.
Continue readingIn the week leading up to the league finals, Reading captain Lucie Daman posted on Instagram:
“Same club, different group of legends. Very excited to be back at finals weekend with Reading 12 years later.”
The photo shows a young, up-and-coming Daman in the Reading line-up with amongst others, Sam Quek and Kate Richardson-Walsh, from the last time the side from Sonning Lane won the title in 2013.
Could Old Georgians win the title for a fourth year in a row or would Surbiton break their dominance? Would it be Wimbledon or Oxted taking the third European place? Here’s what happened in the men’s final and third place play off.
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