An excerpt from Golf Tough by Dan Abrahams. * My world is the psychology of golf. It’s thinking, it’s feeling, it’s focus. It’s laying down the right performance processes to help you manage your golfing attitude on and off the course. It’s forming the mini behaviours that elicit success under…
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Foreign Failures: Reasons Football Coaches Fail Abroad
An excerpt - by Blaine McKenna - from Chapter 8 of: * It’s not easy moving to a place where you don’t understand the culture, language, or local game. It’s no surprise that coaches who move abroad often fail. We’ve all seen it over the years with a high turnover…
Bob Booker Playing Statistics
Ever wondered what the great man's playing statistics looked like? League YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford211979-80Brentford9361980-81Brentford25171981-82Brentford271141982-83Brentford31861983-84Brentford26341984-85Brentford35371985-86Brentford4471986-87Brentford21987-88Brentford1111988-89Brentford53Sheffield U2621989-90Sheffield U38481990-91Sheffield U191031991-92Sheffield U84Brentford14221992-93Brentford12 3136656 FA Cup YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford1979-80Brentford1980-81Brentford311981-82Brentford21982-83Brentford211983-84Brentford11984-85Brentford211985-86Brentford11986-87Brentford1987-88Brentford11988-89Brentford Sheffield U41989-90Sheffield U421990-91Sheffield U1991-92Sheffield UBrentford1992-93Brentford 1861 FL Cup YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford1979-80Brentford1980-81Brentford21981-82Brentford21982-83Brentford311983-84Brentford311984-85Brentford21985-86Brentford4 1986-87Brentford2 1987-88Brentford21988-89Brentford11Sheffield U1989-90Sheffield U21990-91Sheffield U111991-92Sheffield UBrentford1992-93Brentford211 2471 FL Group Cup YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford1979-80Brentford1980-81Brentford1981-82Brentford1982-83Brentford121983-84Brentford1984-85Brentford1985-86Brentford1986-87Brentford1987-88Brentford1988-89BrentfordSheffield U1989-90Sheffield U1990-91Sheffield U1991-92Sheffield UBrentford1992-93Brentford 120 Associate Members Cup YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford1979-80Brentford1980-81Brentford1981-82Brentford1982-83Brentford1983-84Brentford21984-85Brentford621985-86Brentford11986-87Brentford1987-88Brentford1988-89BrentfordSheffield U31989-90Sheffield U1990-91Sheffield U1991-92Sheffield UBrentford1992-93Brentford 1202 Full Members Cup YearClubFullSubsGoals1978-79Brentford1979-80Brentford1980-81Brentford1981-82Brentford1982-83Brentford1983-84Brentford1984-85Brentford1985-86Brentford1986-87Brentford1987-88Brentford1988-89BrentfordSheffield…
Deliberate Practice Golf
An excerpt from: Click on the cover to learn more Intensity and Interest – Roads into Motorways The third rule of learning (which is a close relative of the first rule) – boredom prevents connections. The intensity of your practice begins with a choice. You can choose to become captivated…
Golf Psychology | Your First Controller
From Golf Tough by Dan Abrahams You are in charge. You are the director. You get to dictate. You are in control. When I say this I’m not talking about the golf swing. I don’t think anyone can ever have complete control of their swing. I don’t think anyone ever…
The Seagulls
Bob Booker’s knowledge of Brighton & Hove Albion prior to his appointment was sketchy in the extreme. “I knew hardly anything about the club and it was not really on my radar,” he admits. “The phone call from Micky Adams offering me the Brighton job came completely out of the…
Brentford’s Injury Hoodoo
Click on the Cover to Learn More [April 2016] I have never known a season in which Brentford have suffered so many injuries, and not just common or garden knocks, sprains, pulls and bruises, but a constant stream of chronic, long-term, recurring and serious injuries that can threaten careers, take…
The Greek God of Tennis – Stefanos Tsitsipas – is but a Teenager
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! That Stefanos Tsitsipas’ favourite surface is grass proves just how far he has come. His clay court exploits earlier in the season, and his now increasingly impressive results in the early stages of the…
Set The Bar High
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! Markéta Vondroušová in her stellar Grand Slam breakthrough, demolishes Anastasia Sevastova on Court Suzanne Lenglen [French Open 2019] to the point of sending her to another court, even another planet. Vondroušová wins so comprehensively,…
Roger Federer Has Everlasting Batteries
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! If the attempted Sunshine double (Indian Wells and Miami Masters titles) and what preceded it in 2019 has proven anything – already documented time and again over recent years – it is that Roger…