Let’s not rush to judgment over the attributes needed to make a good coach.
‘I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like” is the philistine’s manifesto, the smugly defiant catch-cry of the lowbrow who scorns modernist masterpieces because they’re “not in perspective”, they “don’t make sense” or they’re “too depressing – who’d want that hanging in their lounge?”
The same breezy refusal to allow ignorance to be an obstacle to strident certainty is evident in the constant disputes over who is and isn’t a good coach.
As former All Black Jeff Wilson...
This article appears in the New Zealand Listener issue December 17, 2011.
The full text of the online article will be available on January 2, 2012.
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