Category archive for ‘Politics and Economics’

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  When Will Soccer Stand Up Against Homophobia?

  6/06/11 • (5)

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  FIFA From Rous to Blatter: All For The Good Of The Game!

  6/01/11 • (11)

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  Fifa’s Half-Hearted Fight Against Corruption Continues Its Tepid March

  5/11/11 • (6)

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  FIFA’s Half-Hearted Tackle On Match-Fixing In Soccer

  5/09/11 • (6)

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  Betting on Manchester United’s Future: MUST and BetFred

  9/28/10 • (17)

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  The Arsenal Fanshare: Supporter Ownership or Pipe Dream?

  8/27/10 • (15)

• To Asia, Taking La Liga Beyond Real Madrid and Barcelona

  7/29/10 • (3)

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  The 2014 World Cup In Brazil: Or, Ricardo Teixeira’s Fiefdom

  7/12/10 • (18)

• Africa, FIFA and Government Interference: Dealing With Corruption In Soccer

  7/11/10 • (9)

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  Barcelona’s Debt And Salary Caps in Europe

  7/08/10 • (21)

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  Australia’s 2022 World Cup Bid and Fedor Radmann: Buying FIFA Connections

  7/04/10 • (3)

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  Paying Peter Hargitay: The Price Of A World Cup Bid

  7/01/10 • (11)

• FIFA’s Inadequate Code of Ethics and Australia’s World Cup Bid

  6/29/10 • (6)

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  FIFA’s Corruption And Censorship At The World Cup: The Keyword Is Not Trust

  6/27/10 • (42)

• On Banning Orders: English Hooligans and Civil Liberties

  6/24/10 • (4)

• Fixing The World Cup

  6/23/10 • (4)

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  Developing Soccer in South Africa: Where’s the Game?

  6/20/10 • (9)

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  The Sweeper: The End of the Big Four

  4/08/10 • (5)

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  The Sweeper: Fan Ownership and Pillock-Run Clubs

  4/05/10 • (4)

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  Fan Ownership: A Practical Future?

  3/14/10 • (15)

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  Fan Ownership: How the Concept Has Taken Hold in England

  3/13/10 • (6)

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  Fan Ownership: Brentford’s Brian Burgess On the Reality of a Fan-Run Club

  3/12/10 • (7)

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  Fan Ownership: The Bundesliga Model

  3/11/10 • (17)

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  Fan Ownership: The Fallen of the Trust Movement

  3/10/10 • (1)

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  Fan Ownership: The Successes of the Trust Movement

  3/09/10 • (13)

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  Putting the Trust into Football: An Examination of Supporter Ownership

  3/08/10 • (16)

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  Who Owns Leeds United? None of Your Business, Lad.

  3/04/10 • (4)

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  On a Club’s Identity and Tradition, via Trigger from Only Fools and Horses

  3/03/10 • (1)

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  Liverpool Fans to Tom & George: Debt, Lies, Cowboys Not Welcome Here

  3/03/10 • (Comments Off)

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  Little Noticed Club in Crisis: Caernarfon Town FC

  2/27/10 • (Comments Off)

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  Lessons Learned from Portsmouth and Chester City

  2/26/10 • (7)

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  Notts County: The Long View

  2/26/10 • (1)

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  Sepp Blatter: The Autumn of Football’s Patriarch

  2/22/10 • (1)

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  How Supporters’ Groups Have Won the Ear of the English Media

  2/19/10 • (5)

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  FIFA’s World Cup Tickets Fiasco: Blatter and Family Have Some Explaining To Do

  2/19/10 • (13)

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  Wind It Up and Start Over: the Future for Portsmouth?

  2/13/10 • (3)