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The Unfair Coach
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
The British Idea About Coaches
The british were basically losing at everything by the 19 fifties. They hired coaches to fix the problem. The notion was so highly transmissible that it infected harold abrahams himself. After abraham's running career ended, he was put in charge of all of british amateur sports. So he was happy to employ a coach and use a coach all the time. It got him further in sport. But when he was on the other side of it, he then sont of reverted to amateur principles - we don't like coaches. We control coaches. Now i can see why some aristocrat might find coaching distasteful. People born on top always want for
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