Great Britain’s first games of the home leg of the FIH Pro League are now in the books. Wins over Ireland and India made it a perfect weekend for the men’s side.
Rather than give you a run of the mill match report, which let’s face it, you won’t read and you can find elsewhere, I thought instead I’d jot down a few thoughts and a few things that caught my eye.
Great Britain’s men get their Olympic qualifying campaign up and running on Monday (15th) as they take on Pakistan and skipper David Ames is hoping to use the fuel from past disappointments to drive his side to the Olympics in Paris.
Great Britain’s women, along with 15 other teams are drinking in the last chance saloon in terms of Olympic Qualifying. However, despite the high stakes of the qualifying tournament, which starts this Saturday morning, Anna Toman is keen to embrace the ‘privilege of pressure.’
Continue readingThe semi-finals of the EuroHockey Championships get going later on today (Thursday) which means there’s just enough time for me to squeeze in some more things that caught my eye in the closing matches of the pool stage. So here we go.
At the time of writing the first weekend of the tournament has come to a close and we’ve had a look at every team at least once. Here are a few observations and a few things that have piqued my interest.
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