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Football and politics: the politics of football [PDF]
Managing Sport and Leisure, 2020 How often have we heard the old adage that sport and politics should not mix? Indeed, the New Year was only days old when the International Committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games warned that ath...
Martin J. Power +4 more
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Social Science Quarterly, 2016 ObjectivesThis article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to explore to what extent political regimes affect the competitive balance in domestic football (soccer) leagues.MethodsWe run OLS cross‐sectional regressions comparing democracies ...
Ignacio Lago +2 more
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American Heart Journal, 1972 Classical migraine, including incapacitating visual field defects, repeatedly developed in five young men immediately after blows to the head while playing football and in no other circumstances. A similar condition occurred in a professional boxer and an isolated attack in a boy footballer.
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Football is football and is interesting, very interesting [PDF]
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2015 There are robust consequences of the fact that football is football and not something else. The aesthetic personality of football does not submit to a template inappropriately borrowed from elsewhere. One consequence is that beauty should not be awarded privileged status.
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The footballer's fracture [PDF]
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 1996 ObjectiveTo describe the typical tibial diaphyseal fracture (“footballer's fracture”) and to clarify the circumstances and mechanism of the injury.MethodsIn an attempt to obtain a detailed analysis of the types of injury suffered, and thereby highlight areas for prevention, 100 consecutive adult football players with a tibial diaphyseal fracture were ...
H R Cattermole, P J Gregg, J R W Hardy
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 1973 AbstractThe vertices of the graph Ok are indexed by the (k−1)-subsets of a (2k−1)-set. Two vertices are adjacent if and only if their labelling sets are disjoint. This paper establishes that O5 is an edge disjoint union of two Hamiltonian circuits and a 1-factor and that O6 is an edge disjoint union of three Hamiltonian ciruits.
E.Keith Lloyd, Guy H.J Meredith
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FOOTBALL AGENTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON FOOTBALL
, 2022 This article covers football agents and their influence on football. Throughout the article, various tables and analyzes are used to reveal the topic. Conclusions and suggestions are given at the end of the article.
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Decentralization and Football* [PDF]
Social Science Quarterly, 2018 ObjectivesWe show that decentralization of economic and political power makes a substantial difference in football. Decentralization increases the competitive balance of domestic football leagues and creates an advantage for clubs from decentralized countries in international competitions.MethodsWe run pooled cross‐sectional time‐series analyses using ...
Lago Peñas, Ignacio +2 more
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Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 2014 Anthropological interest in football has been on the rise since the beginning of the century, which can be attested to by the rising number of studies, papers, collective publications and scientific conferences on the topic. Seeing as anthropology is no longer the study of the culturally bizarre and exotic, it is clear that the first anthropological ...
Ivan Kovačević, Bojan Žikić
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