Paul Rouse: Seeing the future is the greatest gift in sport

All over the world of sport, there are people who think they can tell the future. But is it a scientific process?

FAIRYTALE FINALE: Super-sub Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is surrounded by his jubilant team-mates after scoring Man United’s last-gasp winner in the 1999 Champions League final. Pic: Eric Cabanis/AFP via Getty Images

BEING able to see the future is a gift that can help in any project. It is not that you are then guaranteed to succeed, more that it improves your prospects.

And in seeing the future, it is not necessarily the case that you need to be able to discern every last detail; sometimes it is enough to get the broad outline of what will come to be.