Showing posts with label ‘So you want to be Captain?’. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ‘So you want to be Captain?’. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 October 2010

"Martin Corry has come on board and I'm very hopeful for Matt Dawson and Mark Ramprakash too"

 Can you help Declan with your contacts to the Captains of this world?

Some of you may know the story already of when my son Louis was made captain of the U12s school rugby team and I went out to buy him a book on what captains should do.

While I found the weighty works by Sir Clive Woodward, Mike Brearley and the like, I could find nothing for kids. So grasping the initiative, Louis  and I wrote to a few leading captains asking for their words of wisdom, advice and top tips on how they do their jobs. To our great delight very many wrote back, including;

Malcolm Alker – Karen Atkinson - Rob Andrew - Leighton Baines –Rory Best - Ian Botham - Geoff Boycott - Lee Briers - Matthew Burke - Mark Butcher - Will Carling – Bob Casey - Mike Catt - Mark Chilton – Seb Coe - Jonathan Davies - Robin Ejsmond-Frey – Andy Griffin – Gavin Hastings - Matt Holland - Kelly Holmes - Stuart Hooper - John Inverdale - Justin Langer - Mark Lawrenson - Tom Lehman - Gary Lineker - Rhona Martin - Brian Moore - Martyn Moxon - Graeme Murty - Jamie Peacock - Paul Sculthorpe - Kevin Sinfield - Jeremy Snape - Ray Stubbs - Richard Swain - Tanni-Grey Thompson - Andy Todd - Sam Torrance - Michael Vaughan - Hugh Vyvyan - Henry Winter - Jo Yapp – Kevin Davies - Ben Hawes