Francis (Howard) Davis describes how he made progress from school hockey through to England – partly due to the misfortunes of others – and went on to achieve a record-breaking 81 caps for England and Great Britain through three Olympic Games.

Images courtesy of Howard Davis and Mike Smith

Win Heath is an ex-Welsh international player who took on coaching England and Great Britain. She talks about the difficulties of fitting coaching sessions around players’ working lives in the late ’70s and early ’80s and the disappointment of not going to the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games.