More competitive games between top soccer clubs is desirable but creating a ‘closed’ system would harm a soccer culture built on dreams, says the man who predicted the Super League two decades ago.
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When England played a football match against Germany in 1938, the players were ordered to perform a Nazi salute.
If you think English footy fans have it hard losing in the semis in far away away tournaments, imagine being French and losing the Tour de France on your home turf every year.
The 17-year-old prodigy thrilled the world and set the scene for Brazil’s decades-long dominance of the World Game.
Arthur Wharton, Walter Tull, Hassan Hegazi, Mohammed Salim and Frank Soo each made footballing history and their stories deserve to be better known.
Investing in staging sport is ultimately a matter of turning the entire host environment into a stage.
It is hard to imagine a World Cup in which Germany, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, the Netherlands, England, France and Spain did not appear, or in which one of them did not win. What is it that makes some…
Australia will soon begin its fourth football World Cup finals campaign – the third successive tournament it has qualified for – with group stage matches against Chile, the Netherlands and Spain. While…
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Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) and PhD Candidate (Sport History), Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of Sport and Social Theory, Loughborough University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor of French Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol
