Hello again, I think we also need to not use so much electricity and try and have your heaters on only when you need them and that can change the world. Thank you for reading my part of the blog.
Also grandad has a terrible singing voice and a few other people have agreed with me. So if you ever want to sing, never ask my grandad. He is the worst singer ever.
I would also like to say please eat as much food and try not to waste it and please use as little paper as you can, either scrap or plain. If it's plain, please use both sides and use as much space as you can. Thank you for reading my blog. Hope you have a lovely time reading my grandad's.
Now it's grandad's turn.
Sport is no longer sport. It has become a science. I have been watching the Australian Open tennis championships and been bombarded with statistics.
No longer is sport a game played by enthusiasts. It is something played by sports scientists and sports psychologists through the sportsmen and women. We are bombarded by statistics. High Intensity, sprint evaluation, win predictors. I'm surprised they don't just decide the winner in the changing rooms and save the players from actually having to play.
The problem is with the losers. I'm sure winning players, taking tennis as an example, don't have to analyse their performance half as much as losers who are desperately trying to see what went wrong.
No longer can a losing player claim that he/she felt a bit down or tired or not 100%. Today they have to find out why. Why did they only run x miles whilst in their previous winning match they ran y.
Footballers wear undervests which relay any known number of statistics which sports analysts and scientists study on computers. No wonder it all adds to the stress suffered by players. If you have just lost a match and feel pretty rotten it's better that you relax and try to wind down rather than have your defeat analysed in great detail.
Following England's humiliating defeat against Australia in the recent Ashes series, a well known pundit (sorry forgot exactly who it was but it might have been David Gower) urged players and beackroom staff to get back to the basics of just playing the game. Let's concentrate on batting technique and not a series of figures and stats, they argued.
I have been involved in sport all my life. I have played football, cricket, table tennis, squash, hockey, rugby and many more and still regularly play tennis. I have been chairman of cricket and football clubs, involved in sports associations and for many years was a sports editor for local newspapers. So at times I despair at how players just become commodities and not human beings and I would argue that all these statistics can be demoralising. And I speak as someone who has diplomas in sports psychology and life coaching.
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Sadley the often asked quiz question - how is Michael Aday better known will now become how was Michael Aday better known.
Michael Aday was Meatloaf who sang like a bat out of hell (both the name of a song and a reference to his delivery). His performances of Jim Steinman's operatic feature length songs was at times brilliant.
Sadly Meatloaf's voice has been shot for a long time. I paid my own small tribute yesterday by playing my favourite Meatloaf song which is one of his lesser known epics entitled "Objects in the Rear View Mirror." It's a wonderfully epic song.