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Football

Football: The New Force Behind Social Inclusion

The UK is one of the world’s largest economies. However, it is also a country where the divide between the rich and the poor is growing greater by the day, and it is the poor who are suffering the most. In 1990, the UK’s ri...
by Kieron Blake
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Football

What We Can Learn From the Sneijder Situation

Wesley Sneijder has seen his reputation and value diminish spectacularly in recent times. One of the stars of the last World Cup, his steady downfall at the age of 28 is largely due to his standoff with Inter Milan; a mix of fi...
by Mustafa Sharif
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Africa

Out of Africa: The Evolution of Football in China

Six months after leading Chelsea to their first Champions League triumph, Didier Drogba returned to London last month to present a number of his teammates with commemorative rings to honour that fateful night in Bavaria. In t...
by Patrick Bourke
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Olympics

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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Football

The Murky Depths of Football

Last weekend’s Manchester derby proved to be a truly majestic game of football, epitomising everything that English football stands for. A game full of twists and turns, passion, commitment and most importantly, overridin...
by Alex Roberts
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Football

UEFA announces ‘Euro for Europe’ to be held in 2020

UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) has announced that the 2020 European Championships will, for the first time, be hosted across the continent. The decision to go for a one-off ‘Euro for Europe’ to celebrate...
by Matthew Barnes
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Sport

Badges, Sport and Culture: Why Sport Unites People

As the IPF prepares to launch a new initiative on politics and sport, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what sport can do for society. The politics of identity has been of interest to me since university, when as part of a mod...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Asia

Let’s Kick North Korea Out of the Playground

I do not believe that North Korea should be allowed into the Olympic Games. Period. I have voiced this opinion to many people in the last two weeks, and it seems like I am the only  person who feels this way. To be clear, it i...
by Yoonah Je
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Football

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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