OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of injury to professional footballers during European international and English Premier and First Division league matches. METHODS Videotaped recordings of 29, 49, and 93 matches from the 1996 European Championship, 1996/1997 English Premier season and 1994 to 1997 English First Division seasons respectively were analysed. During each match, several relevant varia...

Corporate sponsorship is a common phenomenon in major soccer leagues worldwide. Studies the area of sports decision-making have been done from global context but lack focus on particular sport or league. Little empirical evidence has emerged factors. The purpose this study to determine factors considered by corporate organizations availing clubs Kenya Premier League. determined influence team-b...

Background. Novices in sport possesses similar visual skills to that of experts, however there may be major differences in magnitude of performance in these skills, with expert athletes only demonstrating superiority in specific vision skills and not all aspects of vision. Objectives. In this vain, the aim of this study was to discern whether Premier League rugby players has enhanced visio-spa...

Imagine you are asked which city is larger, York or Stockport. About York you recently read an article in the newspaper. You remember that it had some mentionable industry, but no international airport and also no premier league soccer team. Of the city of Stockport you have never heard before. Which city will you answer to be the larger one? According to the recognition heuristic (Goldstein, G...

Alcohol use and alcohol-related problems, including accidents, vandalism and violence, at sporting events are of increased concern in Sweden and other countries. The relationship between alcohol use and violence has been established and can be explained by the level of intoxication. Given the occurrence of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems at sporting events, research has assessed intoxi...

football is the most popular sport in developed countries which has a major share of the total sports industry market. in this study we used to determining the pricing equation premier of league football players of iran based on ordinary least squares. research tools were include of three achieved questionnaires that content validity was confirmed during the several meeting and discussed and re...

PURPOSE Despite numerous studies which have been done regarding soccer injuries worldwide, there is lack of available data considering the epidemiology of injuries in the Iranian soccer premier league, although it is the most popular sport in the country. The main goal of this research was to determine the incidence of physical injuries in the studied population, considering other characteristi...

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the expected match outcome, measured by...

This thesis is a historical and critical examination of the development of the Premier League and the new consumption of football, which attempts to link these developments with wider post-Fordist transformations. The thesis argues that the transformation of labour relations in football set the Football League on a course of organic political economic development which privileged the big city c...