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Friday, April 12th, 2013

HWC member Ijaz Chaudhry writes affectionately about his late friend, and great friend of hockey, exclusively for our Website.

 

ZAKIR HUSSAIN SYED

01.11.39 – 21.03.13

It was on the 19th of March when I had a telephonic conversation with Zakir Syed. He had just returned from Malaysia after watching the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and seemed very despondent about Pakistan’s poor performance and spoke at length about the team's shortcomings.               

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

INVESTEC WOMEN'S PREMIER DIVISION

Leicester v Slough – Saturday 6 April (time tbc)

Olton & WW v Uni Birmingham – Sat 30 March (10.30)

Reading v Sutton Coldfield – Saturday 30 March (time tbc)

 

INVESTEC WOMEN'S CONFERENCE EAST

Bromley & Beckenham v St Albans – Saturday 30 March (13.00)

Chelmsford v Old Loughtonians – was to be Wednesday 27 March (this to be rearranged)

Ipswich v Wimbledon – Wimbledon have conceded

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

INVESTEC WOMEN'S LEAGUE – POSTPONEMENT REARRANGEMENTS

 

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

MEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE – POSTPONEMENT CATCH-UPs

Last week's appalling weather made a nonsense of hockey's so-called 'all-weather' pitches. A number of matches were postponed due to the snow.

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Sunday, March 24th, 2013

A former member of the HWC, Zakir Hussain Syed, whom members will remember for his incisive comments on hockey in general and Pakistani hockey in particular, has passed away very recently.

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Thursday, January 31st, 2013

The Hockey Writers' Club announced the 2012 winners of the Higgins Group plc Youth and Junior Awards with the presentations made at the Annual Awards Presentation Lunch on Tuesday 22nd January 2013 at the Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knightsbridge. Mr Richard Higgins, Chairman of Higgins Group plc made the presentations. The President of the world body, the FIH, was in attendance at the function.

The nominations for this year's entry gave the adjudicating committee a difficult task as the quality of the nominees was very high.

 

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Barry Middleton, the 29-year-old Great Britain, and England captain currently playing his club hockey with HGC in the Netherlands and Kate Walsh, the 32 year old Great Britain, England and Reading defender were named UK Player of the Year for 2012 following the annual poll conducted amongst British members of the Hockey Writers’ Club.  Both are currently in the England training squads and are no strangers to honours.

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Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Recently retired top umpire, Andy Mair, has recently been named Eurohockey Photographer of the Year.

With more time on his hands Andy has returned to a long-time hobby and was very active at the Euro Hockey League finals with his brilliant shots resulting in his award.

We will contact Andy and see whether we can get a sample of his work for members to drool over.

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Monday, August 20th, 2012

Patrick Rowley (second from left in front row) was recently one of over 100 journalists and photographers who had covered more than ten Olympic Games events who were honoured by the International Press Association (AIPS) at a ceremony at the Proctor & Gamble Family House in London. Pat clocked in at 13!

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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
 
Newsletter number 82 has been published and is now available as a pdf. To get a copy contact Bill Colwill at the email address below

 bcolwill@aol.com

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Friday, March 23rd, 2012

 John Spicer of Amersham & Chalfont Hockey Club has sent news of a charity event which some might like to be involved with.

It features two of Men's Hockey's high profile figures: Andy Halliday (GB Hockey Men's Team Manager) and Jason Lee (GB Men's Head Coach).

 

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Saturday, March 17th, 2012

 The Pakistan Hockey Federation has sacked foreign coach Michel Van Den Heuvel of The Netherlands and appointed former Olympians Khawaja Junaid and Akhtar Rasool as the coach and manager of the national team.

As the Pakistan Hockey Federation now ponders action against six rebel players, Pakistan's highly respected correspondent, ZAKIR HUSSAIN SYED, looks towards London 2012.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Women's Champions Trophy in Argentina
GOOD TOURNAMENT UNDER HOT SUN
By Eric Weil
The Women's Champions Trophy in Rosario, Argentina, from January 28 to February 5, was played at the wrong time in the midsummer heat with temperatures bordering on to 40 degrees C.
Friday, February 10th, 2012

40-YEAR HISTORY

For the occasion of the Club's 40th Anniversary we produced a booklet on the main points of our first 40 years. A copy was supplied to each guest at the recent Annual Awards Luncheon.

We can now make this available to visitors to our site by download. It is a pdf document and is available simply by clicking on the 'download' button.

 


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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Hockey has its own archive museum at Butts Road in Woking, Surrey.

The Museum has come about through the energy and initiative of enthusiasts: Mike Smith and David Wareham, on one hand, and Patrick Rowley and Dil Bahra, on the other, with the  objective of  preserving hockey’s rich heritage. The group was  expanded to include Katie Dodd, the former England international, and Ian Wilson, Treasurer of England Hockey.

Enormous progress has been made. You can see the progress on

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