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The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters +2 more
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Evaluation of Factors Influencing Assistant Referee Decisions in Determining "Offside" in Football
Слобожанський науково-спортивний вісникBackground and study aim. The human factor and referee errors are an inherent part of football. The number of mistakes can be significantly reduced, but it cannot be completely eliminated.
Anatoly Abdula, Stanislav Marulin
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Strategic Behaviour and Risk Taking in Football [PDF]
This article develops a dynamic game-theoretic model of optimizing strategic behaviour by football teams. Teams choose continuously between defensive and attacking formations and between a non-violent and a violent playing style. Starting from the end of
Stephen Dobson, John Goddard
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
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Influence of Football Match-Play on Isometric Knee Flexion Strength and Passive Hip Flexion Range of Motion in Football Referees and Assistant Referees. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Fernández-Ruiz V +7 more
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Reviewing professional burnout levels of football referees
, 2018 Bu çalışmanın amacı, Balıkesir ilinde görev yapan futbol hakemlerinin mesleki tükenmişlik düzeylerinin incelenmesidir. Betimleyici tipteki araştırmanın evrenini Balıkesir’de görev yapan faal futbol hakemleri oluşturmuştur. Araştırmada basit rastgele örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır.
SİVRİKAYA, Ahmet Haktan +1 more
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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REFEREE PERSONAL MEANING: PERCEPTION of FOOTBALL OFFICIALS
, 2014 The aim of this study was to evaluate the personal meaning of refereeing for Portuguese football referees. Participants were 47 football referees from the 1st Portuguese Professional Football League evaluated through an open question: "Write down what refereeing means to you". The analysis was made according to Miles & Huberman (1994) procedures. The 5
Brandao, Regina +4 more
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‘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
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