Your guide to when to pay attention to them and when to beware.
- Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Southampton
Polling is difficult – and everyone except pollsters overestimates how accurate polls are.
Internet polls are offering up quite different results to phone polls. Here are a few suggestions as to why.
Charges of corruption by US prosecutors against FIFA have parallels to the IOC’s problems in the 1990s.
There is a tendency – almost a law of nature – that governs the way the costs of large-scale international events such as the football World Cup and Olympic Games far outstrip the initial forecasts of…
Since the financial disaster of the Montreal 1976 Olympics, “economic impact assessment” has become an increasingly popular tool for host governments and organisers to justify the vast expense of major…
Contact Will for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision





