You've probably noticed that there's a world cup going on at the moment. Consequently there are a bunch of resources to use. SOSIG Subject News � World Cup research in the Social Sciences. Has a good round up with links to the economic impact of football, sports and development on a country's economy. Also linked from the page is information on the extent to which young men drink to compensate for not being man enough to play in it. The University of Warwick has produced a series of podcasts on world cup issues, professionalism of football management and David Beckham's role as a sporting icon.
Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineWatch has done a round up of what some of the search engines are doing in this area and Gary Price has done a comprehensive round up of world cup resources.
All we need to know now is 'when are England going to get knocked out?' - not that I'm not confident in our ability to win the thing, oh no.
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