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Communities almost never see a boost in job or income growth after taxpayers subsidize a new sports facility.
Arteta’s tactics include delaying the players’ meals, unexpectedly changing their travel plans, and making dressing rooms hotter.
Players have been injured by lightning during games, and a strike to the stands could hurt a lot of fans.
Are we optimising too much?
Research has repeatedly found that stadiums generate little economic benefit, while subsidy referendums often fail when put before voters. Yet team owners continue to receive billions in tax dollars.
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
Some big clubs have alienated supporters with their approach to ticket sales.
Why streamers are paying for sports programmes with no actual sport in them.
An institution that belongs to everyone and to no one is a fragile thing. It survives on a shared conviction that some goods are not for sale and belong to the community.
Fifa’s recent sell-off controversy has reignited the debate about ownership of football and other sports.
Fifa’s expansionist strategy is pushing elite footballers beyond acceptable limits.
Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.
The threat is a response to FIfa’s proposal to sell stakes in its football competitions.
The game belongs to the fans. Fifa would do well to remember that.
Research links repeated head impacts with poorer brain health in some former players, although the evidence cannot yet prove cause and effect.
Keegan was perhaps the first footballer to grasp the idea that his success on the field could be turned into something that held a wider cultural value.
Spain’s passing triangles did more than create space: they forced France into making constant choices.
The English are bonded over an ever growing list of football disappointments.
A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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