Life is a culmination of choices made, and chances taken. The odds on mere existence are infinitesimal. Every day decisions are made and the numbers land in or against our favour. Maybe the only thing less likely than history to…
For all the skill involved, football is a buffet of uncertainty. Without the proper tools required to carve out the chaos, success will not be forthcoming, but no particular pallet of skills will guarantee the right result every time. Conditions,…
Both in football and in life, there is no fixed point to which we might one day arrive at. There are differing levels of joy and accomplishment that everybody hopes to attain, and though it takes great perseverance to get there,…
People like to think of change as a series of bold – era defining – moments, with virtually nothing in between. In actuality they happen far more gradually over the course of time, by a series of events that may…
An entity can moves either forward or backward but the composite sum of its parts may move in many different ways, all in an attempt to create some momentum. Because standing still is the fast track to failure actions are…
Of all the various activities that can be enjoyed, there are two types. Some require skill and there are those that are fuelled by chance. The idea then that even the element of good fortune may exist in the world…
If knowledge is power, then those that ask questions are forever trying to arm themselves for the future. To seek out solutions that may never be found for problems which could never be encountered; the quest for understanding is a…
Natural predispositions mean that looking at the exact same thing can lead to completely different conclusions. The optimist and the pessimist will forever argue about how full a glass of water is but one thing is for sure; adding a…
Victory is like sunrise on another day, always just over the horizon. It’s a place everybody wants to get to but only a select few have the right directions. Even those that choose the right path might find that the…
An inaudible rhythm, more important than the noise any other instrument could make. There, filling every gap between consciousness, lies the capacity for our very existence and assists in every action we then take. Sometimes we follow it, though the…
