Voices in the crowd: Vaughters and Wenger

Since the early hours of Thursday morning and the last instalment of Bleeding Edge, some smarter than average bears have had their say. Arsene Wenger and Jonathan Vaughters are two of the more interesting and insightful voices in football and cycling respectively and equally forward thinking in their approaches to team management. The point that both unifies and sets them apart from their peers is their willingness to speak out with little regard for the way the wind is blowing.

Australian Sport's Blackest Day: Instructive.

The sky is falling in Australian sport. The peptide raindrops are flooding the fields of the Australian Football League and the dark water is running over the parched ground, doubtless leaving few sports in the dry. Indeed, it may only be a matter of time before the same level of doping is revealed in sport in the UK.

Fingers in the socket.

Meanwhile, in the sparkly clean world of cycling….