Coaching Economics

There is a story perhaps a fable that provides the motivation for this article. During an England football team training session David Beckham was practising his free-kicks. At one point he was struggling to score on a consistent basis. Glenn Hoddle then the England manager came over and told Beckham that he should step aside and let him show him how to do it. He then proceeded to take the same free kick repeatedly with much greater success. By all popular accounts this simply wasted some of Beckham's training time and all it taught him was that Hoddle could take good free kicks.