Course: Football: More than a Game

With records for sponsorship deals, matchday attendances and audience figures all increasing the spread of women’s football has the attraction to women’s football is according to business analysts impacting upon …

Football and Covid: Case Study of Scotland The history of infections such as Polio, Spanish flu, AIDS, Ebola, SARS and Zika virus should have provided lessons for football and sport …

The Benefits of Football ( and sport more generally) Diplomacy maybe summarised as follows: The arguments being that: • Football diplomacy is low-risk, low-cost and more often than not high …

Governance refers to a system of political co-ordination among agencies or an organisation seeking to resolve common purposes or resolve collective problems through making and implementing norms, rules, programmes and …

Watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments. You might consider the following questions: What does the term global football mean? How do global developments impinge upon local …

It is a multi-billion dollar organisation with estimated reserves of $1.5 billion US dollars. It governs the world’s most popular game and is itself governed by Swiss law. It has …

Summary The following are key points to take from the material we have covered or will cover in this section: Remember that earlier we compared men’s football in 1930 and …

Welcome to the final week of this course, Football: More than a Game. Five weeks since we started and we’ve covered a lot of ground on the sport of football. …

As you watch the first video for this week, consider the questions below: Can football help countries talk to each other? Why should the United Nations be interested in the …

Who are the football champions of the world? What is the fastest growing sport in the world? How does football help with homelessness and poverty? Welcome to week 4. This …

The stories of triumph and loss are both exhilarating and heartbreaking, but all of the competitions help to illustrate what a great game football is and why it is still …

Welcome to Week 3 of this course Football: More than a Game. This week we consider some great football rivalries and derby matches. What makes for a classic football rivalry? …

The word community is one of these words that people seem to like. You hear it talked about a lot in football – a good community football club; this club …