Soccer’s global governing body has long sought – and failed – to wrestle club competition dominance away from Europe.
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Two sides from two glamorous cities.
Does more games mean more excitement?
It’s another step in the ‘gamblification’ of sport.
Successful football clubs look for economic support wherever they can find it.
Jurgen Klopp will leave Liverpool with a remarkably similar legacy to the club’s iconic manager, Bill Shankly.
The Africa Super League brings big money but a logistical nightmare and a missed opportunity for commercial club development.
Two researchers who specialise in policing and security at sporting events reflect on another bad day for football.
They may not be funded by gas and oil, but these two sides are big money players.
Chelsea and Manchester City have similar goals on and off the pitch.
A new study explores the how the celebrity and status of professional footballers in the “Big Five” European leagues can affect both performance and pay.
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.
City can rest safe in the knowledge that should they win this season’s delayed Champions League competition, they will get the opportunity to defend the title next year.
Financial scandals have damaged the integrity of both clubs. With the rewards for cheating so high, harsher punishments are needed.
Football could take a leaf from rugby union’s book on how to treat head-injured players, pitch side.
European football matches allow African fans to partake in the aspirational dreams exported worldwide by the Premier League or the Champions League.
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Associate Professor of Sport Business, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Data Science, Sports Analytics and AI, The University of Western Australia; Audencia
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Hull
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor of Criminology, Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich
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Full Professor in HRM & OB, IÉSEG School of Management
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Professor of Management, IÉSEG School of Management
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Environmental Physiology, University of Hull
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Senior Lecturer, International Relations and Politics with Sociology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Economics, Loughborough University
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NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the Hull York Medical School, University of Hull
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Doctoral student in Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism, Liverpool John Moores University