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An exploration of participant behaviour within English grassroots matchday football
Steve M. Smith
Pages: 881-901 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2509537
Are three halves better than two? A comparison of participatory and conventional football in short-term events
Louis Moustakas, Jule Marie Wagner & Katrin Bauer
Pages: 902-916 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2510489
Open Access
Offensive messages and Twitter trolling during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup
Peter English, Asta Zelenkauskaite, Rory Mulcahy & David Fleischman
Pages: 917-933 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2515893
EURO 2024 as a political arena: protest, power, identity, and cohesion
Celia Gouveia & Rui Pereira
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Investigating spectator motivations in women’s football: a comparative analysis between affiliated and stand-alone clubs in the Japanese professional women’s football league
Akari Ota & Eiji Ito
Pages: 958-977 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2515889
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The influence of public subsidies on strategic decision-making and resource allocation: the case of France’s new football stadiums
Jeremy Moulard, Markus Lang & Wladimir Andreff
Pages: 978-1001 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2515888
Racial associations between community demographics and club rosters in the top two tiers of English football
Isaac D. Kocurek-Orr & Matthew R. Orr
Pages: 1002-1015 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2536465
A double-edged sword: understanding the influence of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) on viewer experience in the English Premier League from a team identification perspective
Ryan Chen, Yang Xu, James Du & Joshua I. Newman
Pages: 1016-1034 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2538056
Beyond the cheers of soccer-skating through the mind of football players with reference to football clubs in Ahmedabad, India
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The effect of hosting FIFA world cup on unemployment: an empirical estimation on a panel of 10 hosting countries
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Book Reviews
Football and international relations under Francoism, 1937-1975
by Juan Antonio Simón, Abingdon, Routledge, 2025, 133 pp., £ 120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032260624
Celia Valiente
Pages: 1066-1067 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2473771
Rugby, Soccer and Irish society 1921–1990
by Conor Murray, London and New York, Routledge, 2024, 241 pp., £136.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-032-65004-3.
Dilwyn Porter
Pages: 1068-1069 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2473772
Who owns football? The changing face of club ownership
by Nick Miller, London, UK, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 259 pp., £18.99 (hardback), £13.29 (eBook), ISBN: 9781399417198 and ISBN: 9781399417198
Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
Pages: 1069-1072 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2497192
