All areas of sporting life from players, administrators, lawyers, agents to politicians, campaigners, designers, sportswriters and broadcasters, once the uncompromising fiefdom of masculinity, have boldly opened up to "going woman"... some voluntarily, some not so much.
Community managers are not site administrators but agents of change.
I have seen a great deal of international sport over the years - and, generally, the more successful the sportsman or woman, the more demanding, pampered and protected they become under the wing of coaches, administrators and agents.
These include an analytical and organised brain, experience with computers, and the ability to talk with a variety of different people (bench researchers, university administrators, patent agents, venture capitalists) on a wide range of scientific and commercial topics.
"Most so-called lie detection experts -- experienced detectives, psychiatrists, job interviewers, judges, polygraph administrators, intelligence agents and auditors -- hardly do better than chance," wrote Adam M. Grant.
Software was replacing administrators and travel agents, bookkeepers and secretaries, and at alarming rates.
The committee already controlled military policy and patronage; henceforth local administrators (renamed national agents), tribunals, and revolutionary committees also came under its scrutiny and control.
Chiefs thus became increasingly anxious over their lack of control over young men and women and struck alliances with colonial administrators and recruiting agents to secure the return of migrants.
But that wealth, it now appears, has provided opportunities for unscrupulous team administrators, managers and agents to plunder millions of dollars at the expense of the government, fans and their own teams' finances.
