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Christmas Day Football in 1914

06, 12, 14
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In commemoration of the start of the First World War one hundred years ago there are are number of activities which are logged at the Football Remembers website. This includes a game to be played on December 17 between British and German army teams. Here’s what Andy Zimbalist an
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Review of The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt

05, 12, 14
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This review first appeared on espnfc.com When the Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj was asked about the possibility of the break-up of the United Kingdom just before the Scottish referendum in September 2014, she responded “God forbid”. While the Scots and the English easily perce
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The contrasting conduct of FIFA and the IOC

18, 11, 14
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This week provides a very interesting contrast between the governance structures of the IOC and FIFA. A few days ago we saw FIFA issue a summary of Michael Garcia’s report on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup only for Garcia to disavow the summary within an hour. The
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Prices in the English Premier League

16, 10, 14
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The BBC published some research today showing that prices in the Premier League have been rising faster than the cost of living. I’ve been looking at these price surveys over the last couple of years and find them quite misleading. The problem is that football clubs charge lots
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The Scottish independence referendum and football

11, 09, 14
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With the referendum on Scottish independence one week away I thought it might be interesting to talk about what, if anything, it means for football. Football has long been one of the most important manifestations of national identity so in some ways it is surprising not to have seen m
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Existential crisis and English football

14, 08, 14
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With the 23rd season of the Premier League about to start here are some quick stats on the English football, demand and finance. Between 1992/93 and 2013/14 attendance has risen by 42% in the EPL, 56% in the Championship, 20% in League One and 63% in League Two. The generally faster r
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Does the Community Shield result tell us anything about the coming season?

10, 08, 14
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The Community Shield played between the winner of last season’s Premier League and FA Cup is the traditional starter to the English football season, and today Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0. I don’t know about you but when I ought to be doing a boring task I often procrastinate by p
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Paying college athletes: lessons from the professionals

10, 08, 14
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Yesterday the judge delivered her decision in the O’Bannon case, ruling that the NCAA prohibition on paying college athletes is a violation of the antitrust law. However, she also said that she stipends as low as $5000 per year would be enough to comply with her ruling, which would le
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The strange story of South African World Cup and Latin American tourists

04, 07, 14
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Anders Kelto produced a nice story on NPR this morning about the surprising increase in tourism from Latin America to South Africa following the 2010 World Cup. Below are some figures showing the increase in numbers from selected countries and overall. the increases in arrivals from A
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Brazil 2014: The last World Cup?

10, 06, 14
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  Notwithstanding my professional skepticism about the economic benefits of hosting it, I am looking forward to watching a lot of World Cup football over the next month. But I am also beginning to wonder if this might be last World Cup as we know it. It’s really a miracle that 20
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Welcome to The Blog

We hope it will be a venue for some of our new thinking on football, money and data. We wrote the book Soccernomics because we believed that systematic data analysis could tell us interesting things about football. Our collaboration is a match of science and art, matching the numbers to a convincing story, something which we have to do in our day-jobs as a journalist and an academic.

Soccernomics had done well in the UK, the US and around the world since it was published in 2009, and we published a second edition in the spring of 2012 with three new chapters telling more stories using yet more data. But there’s no reason to stop there. Thus far, researchers have only scratched the surface of the football data mines. One of the aims of this blog is to talk about some of the research that is going on, and some of the uses to which that data is being put. For this new project, we’re also joined by journalist and consultant Ben Lyttleton, our partner in the Soccernomics consultancy.


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From the Blog

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