by Stuart Carrington | Aug 27, 2020 | Blogs, Carringtons Blog
The return of football after lockdown promised a great deal. There was a sense, and hope, that players and coaches would have missed the game to such an extent they would never take it, or the bodies that enable it to occur, for granted again. It is often said the...
by Stuart Carrington | Aug 27, 2020 | Blogs, Carringtons Blog
The most exciting part of any football match is the goals. It’s primarily what spectators pay to see and an integral part of what makes football so appealing. Scoring more goals than your opponents is what is known in sports philosophy circles as a lusory goal. In...
by Stuart Carrington | Jun 29, 2020 | Blogs, Carringtons Blog
Home advantage is a strange phenomenon in football. Naively, I used to dismiss it. I assumed that a ball was a ball and goal was a goal. Surely it does not matter where a game is played when it is the same game? Other sports seemed to support this notion. ...
by Stuart Carrington | May 19, 2020 | Carringtons Blog
A discussion by two experts on controlling yourself before you can control others Referees in football, at all levels, are often the subject of great scrutiny, criticism and abuse. In this article, Keys to Referee asks two authors about referees in football the...
by Stuart Carrington | Apr 30, 2020 | Blogs, Carringtons Blog
Recall a time when, during a football match, you saw a player (or players) lose their composure and control. One type of incident that comes to mind is the so-called ‘mass brawl’; a cluster of players, frustrated, angry and primed for physical competition acting in a...
