The game in Uzbekistan certainly turned out to be a great experience. Despite being expected to finish bottom of the AFC Champions League group we found ourselves in, we came through to play Bunyodkor in the first of the knock-out stages & given that they had appeared in the...
After leaving Doha once the athletics finished, I managed a night in Edinburgh before hopping on a plane back to Bangkok with the aim of reaching Buriram in time for our evening game on Tuesday. I can't say spending 2 out of 3 nights on intercontinental flights is fun...
After a quick pit stop back home, I returned to Asia on Tuesday to cover the Diamond League athletics meet, taking place in Doha tonight. After leaving my consultancy role with UK Athletics at the end of March, I had asked to stay involved with the organisation on an event...
I am sat here at Bangkok Airport, waiting for the flight back home & I have just received some exceptionally sad, tragic news. I am struggling to put my feelings into words & so I will simply publish the email I received from Scotland Lacrosse.
After arriving in Seoul on Monday morning for our Asian Champions League game tonight, the Buriram United team has spent valuable time recovering from the effects of the long travel & subsequent sleep disturbance.
As energy levels began to return, we trained last night at...
In case you hadn't realised from my lack of blog activity (the longest stretch without updating my site), I have had an incredibly busy last few weeks. Where to start & how to put all my adventures in one post is a challenge I know I will not be able to meet. So in an...
A week in & warm weather training is going well. Coach Brookes & Tom Shaw have made us very welcome, whilst training has been characterised by a real energy, thanks in part to working alongside the local track athletes, Atlanta Braves baseball team & Tom's American football...
Finally, the season for spring warm weather training camps has arrived & with it, the excuse to escape the onslaught of the icy March that the UK is currently experiencing. After touching down in Orlando (via a rather tedious stop over spent queuing around Miami airport), my...
This month has seen the publication of the Consensus Statement of Concussion in Sport, taken from the panel discussion at the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport, held in Zurich last year.
Some of the findings my surprise many players, clinicians & parents...
With the London Marathon now looming large on the horizon, the number of amateur runners I am seeing in my private clinic are increasing & it's no surprise that given the factors that contribute to tendinopathy, injuries of this nature are the most common presentation...
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