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Seasonal changes in bone mineral parameters and body composition in youth football players. [PDF]

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil
Hernandez-Martin A, Sanchez-Sanchez J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments [PDF]

This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper employs a relatively simple statistical method, which is based on the seasonal coefficients of variation (CVs) of the end-of-season ...
Ferda HALICIOGLU
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The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of menstrual cycle phase on jumping performance in women's football players: a systematic review. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Marques C, Rebelo M, Serrano J, Fonseca H.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Trunk muscle thickness and sprint, agility, and jump performance in competitive football players. [PDF]

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil
Ucar O, Ulubaba HE, Coskun IA, Kafkas AS, Cinarli FS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Political football

, 2004
Much has been written in recent years about governance in the areas of political science, public policy, local government and international relations. However, little research effort has been devoted to examining the term in relation to the organisation,
Hindley, D
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

The relative age effect in Australian Football League players

, 2010
Youth sports teams are usually grouped into yearly age groups based on fixed cut-off\ud date (September 1st in the UK and January 1st in Australia). Children born just after\ud this cut-off will be the oldest and most mature in their age group.
Barnett, Adrian G.
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source