Today’s visitor to the Museum was Eric Weil, the senior hockey correspondent in Argentina.

British-born Weil emigrated to Argentina in 1951 and immediately wrote for The Standard, an English language paper, and from 1957 for the Buenos Aires Herald and Associated Press.

In the past seven decades he has covered hockey tournaments world-wide and still writes weekly on the domestic game.

Weil is in the UK on his annual visit and was keen to include a visit to the Museum.

He said: “It’s a great idea and, as the first in the world, it will hopefully see others set up in other countries. The extensive library particularly impressed me. I am writing a history of Argentine hockey and will send a copy when it is finally published.”

Mike Haymonds, August 2013