Kids lose if schools, clubs score own goal  By Anendra Singh
Who needs armies and nuclear warheads when a retired NBA star
can induce world leaders to meet amicably to settle their
differences?  The common denominator for US leader Barack Obama
and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, is obviously
going to be basketball on the backdrop of political hostilities.
No doubt, the cross-dressing antics and anatomical piercings of
a hoodie-clad Dennis Rodman is making the suits shudder but
sport again surfaces as the ideal platform for meaningful
engagement in the game of life.  Consequently one can argue the
differences between Hawke's Bay schools and soccer clubs should
be less complicated in the scheme of things.  Or is it?  Perhaps
the saddest part of the club versus school impasse is that the
code has disenfranchised itself from its youth.  Like a
dysfunctional family, the high schools have severed ties from
parent body Central Football amid demands of accountability over
high costs of running their co