Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # David Woolfson Anger Management for Sports People ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Luis Suarez - the Truth behind his bites](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/luis-suarez-the-truth-behind-his-bites/) - [BBC Mike Parr Show - "Do we have to lose our temper?"](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/bbc-mike-parr-show-do-we-have-to-lose-our-temper/) - [Sky Sports News Radio on Luis Suarez](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/sky-sports-news-radio-on-luis-suarez/) - [The Voice in Luis Suarez's Bite!](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/the-voice-in-luis-suarezs-bite/) - [Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, the FBI and the Rooney Rule](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/rio-ferdinand-john-terry-the-fbi-and-the-rooney-rule/) - .Rio Ferdinand is now ready to shake hands with John Terry and Ashley Cole. This is a turn around, how he has reached this decision. In any relationship YOU are the most important person. You are foremost in your relationship with yourself and you take that to your relationship with others. - [Murray: no longer the 'Nearly Man'](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/murray-no-longer-the-nearly-man/) - [The Shame of Lance Armstrong is ours too](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/the-shame-of-lance-armstrong-is-ours-too/) - This is our tragedy too. This sad tale stands in contrast to the joy, glory and pride embodied in the success of our Olympians and Paralympians so recently. - [Ashley Cole, South African Miners and the Power of Texts and Tweets](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/ashley-cole-south-african-miners-and-the-power-of-texts-and-tweets/) - [Ashley Cole, Freedom and the Dangers of Twitter](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/ashley-cole-freedom-and-the-dangers-of-twitter/) - On Twitter every now and then we see the consequence of unrestrained freedom. We see Ashley Cole follow a long line of professional sports people who – in anger – have tweeted their immediate response to an even without time for self reflection. This has consequences for him, his team , the FA and all of us. - [Kate and Wills - Dealing With Difference](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/dealing-with-difference/) - Today my attention is taken by the contrast between the travails of Kate Middleton http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19595221 and the quest for justice around the terrible events at Hillsborough. I am surprised how readily I accept that both headlines seem to be getting equal attention. - [Ryder Cup – It was Neurology “Wot Won It” ](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/ryder-cup-it-was-neurology-wot-won-it/) - This was an extraordinary event, described as a miracle in the dressing room. Ian Poulter talked about the incredible spirit in the dressing room on Saturday night “It just changed”. The question is “what changed”? Neuroscience is increasingly understanding how our emotional experience both creates and reflects activity in the brain. When Poulter talked of “a little glimmer of hope” he was referring to the symptom of brain activity reflected in emotional experience. - [Lewis Hamilton - Why he left McLaren ](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/lewis-hamilton-why-he-left-mclaren/) - Lewis Hamilton left his father some years ago, now – he is to leave the womb of Maclaren, the “mother” that has nurtured him, protected him and given him a place of safety, a place to retreat to when all is not well. He has already left his girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger. Some say he has left because of the money, there may be some truth in this but it seems that in order to find “who he is” to truly separate, become an individual and grow up he needs to leave the womb, the place of safety. - [Why anger in sport has a bad reputation](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/why-anger-in-sport-has-a-bad-reputation/) - [Jody Cundy: A True Warrior](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/jody-cundy-a-true-warrior/) - [Brevik massacre: An attack on us all](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/brevik-massacre-an-attack-on-us-all/) - [KP - Pantomime villain or attention seeker?](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/kp-pantomime-villain-or-attention-seeker/) - [Chinese Olympians versus Team GB](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/chinese-olympians-versus-team-gb/) - [The Great British Olympic Spirit](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/the-great-british-spirit/) - [Usain Bolt Going For Olympic Gold](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/294/) - [OFFENDED, YES – BUT WILL TOM DALEY BE DETERRED?](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/offended-yes-but-will-tom-daley-be-deterred/) - ‘Hate tweets’ speak more about the sender than about the receiver and have consequences both for the targets of the tweets and increasingly for the sender as we see in the cases of Tom Daley and Rio Ferdinand this week. - [Pleasing our Parents through Sporting Success](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/pleasing-our-parents-through-sporting-success/) - Tom Daley dives in memory of his father. Gemma Gibbons weeps with joy mouthing “I love you mum” to the mother she lost in 2004 from leukemia. Andy Murray has his mum Judy at court side as does Serena Williams with her dad Richard. Victoria Pendleton only took up cycling to please her father whose own cycling ambitions were never realised. - [The River of Anger from Stratford to Aleppo](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/the-river-of-anger-from-stratford-to-aleppo/) - Anger is universal. Without anger we are not alive. It is a powerful river running through all our lives. It can be a force for good and achievement while also driving terrible deeds and behaviours. Today, both types of anger are being played out in the news – at the Olympics and in the Syrian city of Aleppo. - [‘UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN’ – Usain Bolt vs Expectation](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/uneasy-lies-the-head-that-wears-the-crown-usain-bolt-and-the-weight-of-sporting-expectation/) - ‘UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN’ – Usain Bolt and the weight of sporting expectation. Dependence on Success could be his downfall. - [PC HARWOOD – His Anger was a Tragedy for Ian Tomlinson](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/pc-harwood-his-anger-was-a-tragedy-for-ian-tomlinson/) - Professional intervention could have saved Tomlinson and could still help Harwood. We carry our unresolved historic anger with us and when it is emerges the brunt is usually born by others. - [Reflections on the John Terry Trial](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/reflections-on-the-john-terry-trial/) - I realise that I have now read the words "f..b..c.." repeatedly on the internet and in every newspaper for the last week. My fear is that through repetition they lose their charge, they become banal and acceptable in everyday discourse. Could this vile phrase one day find its way into the Oxford English Dictionary? - [John Terry and the Case for Sarcasm](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/john-terry-and-the-case-for-sarcasm/) - Had I been called as an expert witness, this is what I would have said: "Sarcasm is a form of angry behaviour. We use sarcasm when we are ourselves feeling angry yet we are not willing to express our anger overtly. - [How Lendl and Tears will see Murray through](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/how-lendl-and-tears-will-see-murray-through/) - A lot has been said and written about Murray, the “weight of history” and expectation he carries for the great British public. Less attention has been paid to the weight of his own personal history. - [WHY ENGLAND NEED PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/why-england-need-psychological-help/) - Human beings have no real use in the world. Were we all to disappear in an instant the earth would slowly return to balance. Over time global warming would stop, buildings and cities would be taken over by forest, animals would roam through the terrain of the concrete jungle and there would be no being sufficiently sentient to chronicle this. - [WILL SPAIN OR ITALY WIN TODAY? A CLASH OF ORGANISMS](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/will-spain-or-italy-win-today-a-clash-of-organisms/) - How can we predict the outcome of today’s Euro final? My own feeling is that “unpredictable” results show that in the end we can never completely override the essential feature of being human - our variability and changeability. No amount of training can take that away for ever. - [If Rooney's Our Pele, I Want My Money Back!](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/if-rooneys-our-pele-i-want-my-money-back/) - There has been much mention of the England team’s “ego”. This is a misuse of the word. Our English boys suffer from under regulation, their egos seem under formed both individually and collectively. As a consequence they are able to achieve moments of explosive brilliance but not to sustain themselves. - [Why England MUST get angry to win Euro 2012](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/why-england-must-get-angry-to-win-euro-2012/) - [Why England Must Relax to Win Euro 2012](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/why-england-must-relax-to-win-euro-2012/) - [Nalbandian - Anger gets the Rap?](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/nalbandian-anger-gets-the-rap/) - David Nalbandian has past form for on court incidents, but this latest episodes makes him now more famous than at any time in his career. As usual anger gets the rap. We only seem to discuss anger when it is manifest in BAD behaviour, - [How England Can WIN Euro 2012](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/how-england-can-win-euro-2012/) - [COULD ROONEY’S RETURN WRECK OUR CHANCES?](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/could-rooneys-return-wreck-our-chances/) - But here is my fear – and let me first state my admiration for Wayne Rooney both as a footballer and as a developing human being. This team seems to be finding a balance between the enthusiasm of youth as embodied in Carroll and Welbeck and the experience of John Terry at the other extreme. Now – against Croatia we anticipate the return of the star, the one big star. How can Hodgson fit him in without changing the shape of the team both on the field and psychologically? - [WITH LOWER EXPECTATIONS ENGLAND CAN WIN](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/with-lower-expectations-england-can-win/) - “We can win” scream the newspaper headlines as dregs of our imperial past return to haunt us. It is this expectation that has created huge and unreasonable pressure on the teams of young millionaires we send to represent our national aspirations. - [Football, football and then the French Open Final](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/football-football-and-then-the-french-open-final/) - Watching Nadal and Djokovic in the rain I was reminded yet again how sport at any level is a competition against oneself. It is a matter of regulation and containment of our internal processes and emotions as well as a focusing and sharpening of muscle memory. - [Only Seven England players visited Auschwitz](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/only-seven-england-players-visited-auschwitz/) - Reading about members of the England team’s recent visit to Auschwitz I felt angry. Why did only seven members of the team go? What were the others doing? - [The trouble with Joey Barton](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/joey-barton/) - Joey Barton has different aspects to his personality - [THE ENGLAND TEAM IS TO VISIT AUSCHWITZ](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/the-england-team-is-to-visit-auschwitz/) - European Championships, FA, England team, Panorama, Ukraine, Rio Ferdinand ## Pages - [Contact Us](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/contact-us/) - [Links](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/links/) - [What Can You Do?](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/what-can-you-do/) - [Anger & Sport](https://davidwoolfson.co.uk/anger-sport/) - Anger can affect your sporting performance. 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