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Here is a nice article on Kate Walsh becoming elected on the athletes’ commission, posted up on the England Hockey website. Kate Walsh elected to Athletes’ Commission Congratulations to Kate Walsh, who has been elected to serve on the British Olympic Association’s Athletes’ Commission. Kate, the captain of the Great Britain and England teams, is one of six Olympians who ... Read More »

So after just over two weeks, we have finally come to the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games. It was a fantastic event and there was some truly incredible hockey to watch. Along the way we saw a couple of brutal injuries, spectacular goals and both individual and team brilliance. Some teams performed well above their world rankings and ... Read More »

The Visa International Invitational Tournament was recently completed in London. The teams in the men’s pool were Great Britain, Australia, India and Germany. There were days of intense competition between some of the greatest teams in the world which ended up with Germany taking the gold, Australia the silver, and Great Britain the bronze. There was a huge representation of ... Read More »

The Netherlands, Argentina, Germany and Great Britain have qualified for the Semi Finals at the Argentina FIH Champions Trophy. On Day 4 of action in Rosario the Olympic Champions wrestled down New Zealand 3-0 and are now facing the World Champions from Argentina who beat China 3-2. Germany defeated Japan 3-2 in a close and exciting match while Great Britain ... Read More »

The Bronze Medal match. At risk of repeating words I have used in previous write-ups, a great man once told me there are only two teams smiling on the day of the finals. The Gold medalists and the Bronze medalists. This great man was about to play in the Bronze medal match at Beijing. He took the Bronze that day. ... Read More »

We are in Semi Finals right now.  It’s elimination for time to have a chance at the big title and only 4 teams are left to compete for it. Each of the semis, none of the teams have played each other yet in this event, so we are sure for some great games. Not to forget the sell out crowds. ... Read More »

Tonight finals placing for this group would be sorted. These two teams already have their places booked into the semis but this game would sort out how’d they’d rank. What else turned up was the amazing sunset, again. Also the crowd was once again packed to the rafters (if there were), in more voice than previously, if that was possible. ... Read More »

Summer. It’s kinda arrived. The sun is out and it’s not zero degrees. That’s a win in my book. On wins. England need one to stay in the finals as they play Argentina next. South Africa have a win on the books and could be a likely chance for an upset. It only took England nine minutes to open their ... Read More »

Resumption of games have occurred. It’s colder and wetter than ever but game are being played. Six in fact. South Korea got that memo while England looked napping early as the Koreans opened the scoring within the first two minutes to stun the English. It did startle the English into the game but not as much as it could have. ... Read More »

Thunder. Lightening. Rain. All happened before the match, which was a good thing. All we had was lots of grey cloud, manageable. The early attacking play by England. Not manageable for the Chinese. For two games in a row now, the Chinese looked out of touch early and conceded a very early goal. To cut to the chase on this game, that would ... Read More »