Sport’s Kobayashi Maru Conundrum

by roger mitchell | Oct 8, 2023

A proper artist once said to me:   The hook finds you, you don’t find the hook Few of us are artists sadly.  We mortals are, at very best, artisans. But that shouldn’t stop us having the patience to wait to be presented with some kind of ”hook” for our podcasts...

Sport Summit Como 2023. The days after.

by roger mitchell | Oct 1, 2023

  Amongst the bumble-bee frenzy of the discussions on the lake, at the breaks, I’d stop and try to calm down my adrenaline. Ready for the next session of jaw-dropping insight, and anecdote, hoping I could in some way moderate the right pace, and use the people...

Women and Sport: the other half of the sky.

by roger mitchell | Jun 25, 2023

Mary Peters was the first female athlete that ever really impacted me. Her gold medal in the Pentathlon in the 1972 Olympics was striking in so many ways. Firstly she came from Northern Ireland in the middle of the Troubles. For a boy from Glasgow, that was a very big...

Silvio Berlusconi The Joker

by roger mitchell | Jun 18, 2023

  One of the real advantages of believing in the Pearly Gates, and a judgement day, is that you can delegate your own moral outrage to a higher authority. The bad men will answer for what they did another day, and to another person. And so it is with me and types...

Paolo Maldini, Il Gattopardo.

by roger mitchell | Jun 11, 2023

  Claudia Cardinale formed part of the 1960s triumvirate of Italian actresses that conquered Hollywood, along with Loren and Lollobrigida. Considered by many the most beautiful and intriguing of the three, with her Tunisian background, she embodied feminine...