CHRIS HEWETT

BACK in the day, when England were at the cutting edge of sports science and spending eye-watering amounts of money on technical expertise, a “visual awareness specialist” was hit on the head by a ball during a training session. “Didn’t see THAT one coming, did you?” shouted one of the players, through tears of laughter.
We are all laughing now, albeit sardonically.
Everyone sees the same thing –a forward pass here, a knock-on there, a shoulder to the head or a no-arms tackle somewhere else – yet everyone sees it differently. How can this be? It is not as if there aren’t any re...