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As FIFA gift tickets for the club World Cup opening game for $20 for price of 5 … worth asking how fans who paid full price at 10x multiples feel, & why would anyone now pay the numbers fifa are asking for games later in comp? nytimes.com/athletic/64177…

A consortium of sport and entertainment executives, which includes the NBA star Jimmy Butler, is expected to make an offer in excess of $200million to purchase Eagle Football’s 43 per cent stake in Premier League soccer club Crystal Palace, sources briefed on the proposed deal

Attendance concerns deepen ahead of FIFA's opening Club World Cup game ICE and CPD officers will be at the match, even if large numbers of fans are not profchadwick.substack.com/p/attendance-c… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

New paper drop Journal of Consumer Culture. Consumption isn’t habits. It’s coordination. Activity chains. Material infrastructures. The choreography of everyday life. By Krog-Juvik & Southerton "Activity event connections and life-course transitions" 👉 doi.org/10.1177/146954…

The map of football is quietly redrawn......not by fans, but by fund managers.

It's tempting to view the English media's relentlessly negative takes on the Club World Cup as a kind of bitter post colonialism in the football context. Its being played in the USA (Plastic & Mickey Mouse) and involves non-European teams (Irrelevant). But I actually think it

How fashion partnerships amplify elite football's industrial scale gentrification Luxury brand deals are now the name of the game for the sport's top clubs substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

When the archives run dry: Football's crisis of nostalgia Living through a great age of retro substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Some partnerships stop being commercial & start becoming cultural. Juventus & adidas is commercial but it’s a cultural relationship. Relational sociology, in black and white. #Juventus #adidas #FCA

The networked economy of FIFA's Club World Cup substack.com/home/post/p-16… It's not just Saudi Arabia that is behind the tournament's growing interconnectedness, others are also seeking to build power and influence Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Wallpaper legitimacy, sport washing, and the innocence of bystanders How Juventus players looked on as US president Trump espoused his views on conflict in the Middle East, and on gender and trans rights substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

What's #blokecore....

Why do the Straits of Hormuz matter for sport? Growing tensions in the Middle East show how significant geography has always been for the industry substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Sport in a dangerous neighbourhood Iranian attack on Qatar provides further evidence about why it wanted to stage the 2022 FIFA World Cup substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Sport becomes the latest example of Britain's 'shoestring statism' New government funding for the sector may appear generous but it amplifies an inconvenient truth profchadwick.substack.com/p/sport-become… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Memories of a stellar playing career 🎞️

Make sport marketing partnerships, not war AC Milan has agreed a deal with Democratic Republic of Congo’s tourist board, but is it a matter of business or of geopolitics? substack.com/@geosport200/n… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport

Coming soon We are adding a new edition to our collection of geopolitical economy books Geopolitical Economy of Esports will be published early in 2026 N.B. cover presented here is a mock up & for illustrative purposes only Dr Paul Widdop Michael M. Goldman Simon Whitmore

It often feels like the Premier League devours the transfer market's biggest kills, while the rest of Europe circles later, left to pick over the bones.

The geopoliticisation of sport Sport has become obsessed with geopolitics, but what is it and why does it matter? substack.com/home/post/p-16… Dr Paul Widdop #Geosport