I have just finished my first term of teaching at Southampton Solent University contributing to their undergraduate programme in Sports Writing.

This block of teaching has passed been very enjoyable with my student groups very receptive to the module delivered on Sport Policy. What has been particularly rewarding has been the student desire to engage in the wider discussion of the critical role played by sport in contemporary post industrial society. Pleasingly, this has generated reflection, discussion and reading beyond the realms of football which too often dominates sporting debate and controversy.

The other rewarding element of the past term has been the interaction with those students particularly enthused by their dissertation topics. These have included the challenges to the modern day football writer (could their be another Hunter Davies?), the commercialisation of domestic cricket, and the future of British basketball.