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Social media boycott This weekend, many sports clubs, broadcasters, reporters, and similar are stopping posting on social media from 3pm on Friday 30th April until midnight on Mon 3rd May as a social media boycott about the lack of action being taken by social media companies about racism and online …
European Super League fiasco This weekend, twelve European football sides including six from England announced their intentions to start preparing to participate in a new European Super League. This midweek breakaway league would have, by their words, been created ‘to save football’. Florentino Perez, Real Madrid president claimed that young …
Where the world’s best running selfie came from! In the beginning, there was the colour yellow Ten years ago a small sports shop started to organise runs from their shop each week. It encouraged anyone who wanted to be a run It was about being a community. A community where …
Here’s to what’s good for us! Let’s go places! After being at home for so long, many of us are longing to go places, to travel to places they’ve not been to for such a long time. We experience so much more in life when we are out and about. …
People are complex beings. We aren’t easily defined as one thing or another. Life and the human race aren’t binary units. I have been doing some thinking recently about who I am, what I am seen as, what others think of me, what I am defined by. This internal reflection …
Too close to the action to see? The temptation to keep doing what you’ve always done is one that many tend to heed to. Being so close to a problem or a situation seldom allows the freedom to seek alternative answers. Many groups who want to recruit members or long …
We all need some more humility The world needs a little more humility right now. Not one of us knows everything. If someone is telling us they are scared or fearful, we should listen to them and adjust. If someone tells us about their struggles, that should provoke empathy and …
No more long distance runs I have made the decision to retire from long distance running. I’ve not run further than 10k since October 2019 and now have health issues that have made me address the likelihood of returning to a reasonable level. End of the long roads After 24 …
Feeling out of sight and off the radar. Sometimes we may feel like what we do and what we contribute gets overlooked. Sometimes we feel like that our voice isn’t as strong or as noticed as we would hope. Sometimes we can be mistaken though as I recently found out. …
We all must have had at some point thought about what we want to do when life ‘gets back to normal’. We aren’t alone in having that list of things that we can’t wait to do when the pandemic restrictions are ended. Yes, there are the usual expected ones such …
Many of us underthink ourselves You know more than you think you know You’re admired more than you think you are You’ve achieved more than you think you have You’ve learned more than you think you have You are more than you think you are. But why? So why is …
This weekend is one I will always remember as it is 10 years ago this weekend that I moved back up to Yorkshire. Whilst I was born in Yorkshire and lived up here until I was 5, my family and I moved down to Wolverhampton and spent 30 happy …