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A Beleaguered Beautiful Game

Football is turning increasingly ugly but its defects are merely symptomatic of the wider flaws of a modern capitalist society out of control. Football. A divisive topic at the best of times, an obsession for some and an irri...

by Kishan Koria

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No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics

Nation-states have recently come under attack, as several scholars have argued that a global world requires novel forms of governance that will eventually make old nations a relic of the past. For the time being, however...

by Lorenzo Piccoli

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Football: A Way of Life in Mostar

A special article from Football Beyond Borders founder Jasper Kain on his experiences promoting tolerance through football in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina: We buy our tickets in a hole chiselled in the stone wall nestled...

by James Appleby

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Romance & History in Exchange for the Swank of Modern Football: The Intriguing Debate Surrounding West Ham’s Stadium Move

It is now official. The deal for West Ham to own the 2012 London Olympic stadium has been completed (subject to an ambitious legal challenge from disgruntled Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn). On first looks, there seems to b...

by Jack Gregory

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Why Are So Many Athletes Violent Towards Their Female Partners?

Two weeks ago, two world class athletes with a history of violence against women took centre stage in world news: United States National Football League (NFL) player Ray Rice and South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. The ...

by Aidan Liban

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A Funding Body as Competent as Its Athletes: Why UK Sport Got its Rio 2016 Funding Strategy Just Right

Few would have been envious of UK Sport towards the back end of last year. As the official body solely tasked with allocating Team GB its funding for Rio 2016, their decision was never going to be universally popular. Indeed it...

by Jack Gregory

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Tokyo’s Hope for Improvements by 2020 Olympics

On 7 September 2013, Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics after the members of International Olympic Committee voted to select the host city from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. As Tokyo celebrates its win, opinion leader...

by Keiko Tanaka

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Floyd Mayweather: Deeper than the money

For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the number 48 symbolises his solidified status as the best fighter of his generation. For Manny Pacquiao, perhaps it’s a fatalistic sign to choose an ironically simpler path into politics. But person...

by Tommy Rufai

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On F1 and Bahrain

Last weekend was the Bahrain Grand Prix. Normally, this would pass the majority of people by. But, due to the protests, infringements of human rights and other symptoms of the ‘Arab Spring’, more people than normal have bee...

by Alex Stockler

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A Beleaguered Beautiful Game

No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics

Football: A Way of Life in Mostar

Romance & History in Exchange for the Swank of Modern Football: The Intriguing Debate Surrounding West Ham’s Stadium Move

Why Are So Many Athletes Violent Towards Their Female Partners?

A Funding Body as Competent as Its Athletes: Why UK Sport Got its Rio 2016 Funding Strategy Just Right

Tokyo’s Hope for Improvements by 2020 Olympics

Floyd Mayweather: Deeper than the money

On F1 and Bahrain

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