This article explores how spectators of a live soccer game can collect detailed data while watching the game. Our motivation arouse from the lack of free detailed sport data, contrasting with the large amount of simple statistics collected for every popular games and available on the web. Assuming many spectators carry a smart phone during a game, we implemented a series of input interfaces for...

This research investigated the role of two foci of identification (team and territory) on identity management strategies used by sport followers in the particular context of elite French rugby union. In study 1 which dealt with casual spectators (N = 153), the results corroborated numerous studies conducted in the North-American context and showed that team identification constitutes a strong d...

To threaten harm is to assault and to realise that threat is to batter. To do so intentionally for the purpose of producing injury amounts to causing harm with intent and one cannot consent to be the victim of such violence. Despite these clearly enunciated legal principles, such conduct is routinely practised in the name of sport. Boxing is widely accepted as a highly paid professional sportin...

"The notions of luck, risk, noise, and uncertainty could be often read in sports-related literature. However, there was not published a study so far that attempts to summarize the differences similarities among them. In this paper, we aim review most influential papers, books carried out relation these concepts. As topic sports literature is quite diverse, therefore, followed method aiming for ...

To the Editor: I read the recent article on sound exposure during football matches in the SAMJ with great interest.1 Swanepoel et al. concluded that ‘exposure levels exceeded limits of permissible average and peak sound’1 and ‘Public awareness and personal hearing protection should be prioritised as preventive measures’.1 It is interesting that sound from sports competitions could be an importa...

In the context of leisure travel in sport, United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to promote public health and combat climate change may be addressed simultaneously. This study investigates football spectators’ carbon footprint that is generated from traveling stadium. It also examines effects stadium everyday pro-environmental behavior on subjective well-being. The uses data were gather...

To the Editor: I read the recent article on sound exposure during football matches in the SAMJ with great interest.1 Swanepoel et al. concluded that ‘exposure levels exceeded limits of permissible average and peak sound’1 and ‘Public awareness and personal hearing protection should be prioritised as preventive measures’.1 It is interesting that sound from sports competitions could be an importa...