Dr Paul Widdop
@Fire_and_Skill
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Football Business | Sport Economic Networks | Associate Prof @ManMetUni | Visiting Prof @DerbyUni | Founder @FB_Collective | GeoSport
Stretford Manchester
Joined January 2011
The Football Cultural Audit (FCA) A framework for analysing clubs not as brands or businesses, but as cultural systems shaped by space, symbols, people, and platforms. 5 dimensions. Football’s cultural operating system.
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Wrote about the enormous problems facing pubs - with bonus picture of me doing an “oh shit they’ve closed our local” pose
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Dunfermline Athletic is the latest club to stop printing matchday programmes, depriving fans of a tangible piece of memorabilia Read the full story by @MGrantScotland ⬇️
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🇰🇿➡️🇵🇹 The first Matchday of the League Phase of the Champions League will see a unique trip! Kairat Almaty (The easternmost club in UCL history) will travel to face Sporting Clube de Portugal (The second westernmost club in UCL history). That’s a trip of 6906km to Lisbon!
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West Ham at war - club’s own fan advisory group send letter of no confidence in board and back protest plans. Fan survey also damning of club #whufc
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telegraph.co.uk
Fan advisory board hits out at ‘unacceptable’ running of club before planned protests for games against Crystal Palace and Brentford
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Sport loves nostalgia During these times of economic and political uncertainty, memories of the past are especially alluring https://t.co/zfmdZTi6eX
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The ATP Tour is ready to take fashion seriously, quadrupling the budget it’s putting behind initiatives in the space. The plan is to make sartorial stars out of tennis players, like the NBA and NFL before it. https://t.co/yGEKWMcPco
voguebusiness.com
The ATP Tour is ready to take fashion seriously, quadrupling the budget it’s putting behind initiatives in the space. The plan is to make sartorial stars out of tennis players, like the NBA and NFL...
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Isak v Woltemade That’s entertainment: The transfer window as global drama https://t.co/n1jS5eFF37 Semi-conductors, healthcare, financials and Nick Woltemade https://t.co/I6gVsHMhVm
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That’s entertainment: The transfer window as global drama Isak to Liverpool has been more a case of soap opera than football, but that's nowadays the nature of elite professional sport https://t.co/n1jS5eFF37
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That’s entertainment: The transfer window as global drama Isak to Liverpool has been more a case of soap opera than football, but that's nowadays the nature of elite professional sport https://t.co/n1jS5eFF37
@Fire_and_Skill #Geosport
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Semi-conductors, healthcare, financials and Nick Woltemade Saudi Arabia's strategic orientation is changing, football's not the focus of it https://t.co/I6gVsHMhVm
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What an LED board sponsorship tells us about the geopolitical economy of sport Saudi Arabian football club Al-Hilal has just partnered with China's Unilumin; big news, even if it doesn't seem like it https://t.co/p0FhAMrlQA
@Fire_and_Skill #Geosport
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Indonesia - the awakening of global sport's next giant A 2036 Olympic Games bid is coming, hosting the FIFA men's World Cup during the 2040s could follow https://t.co/Cj1QXuQOQ9
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As Bayern Munich 'terminates' its sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda, Monaco, Barca & AC Milan engage with DR Congo https://t.co/wNr4U8BzMu Arsenal, PSG continue in their relations with Rwanda #Geosport considers the issues here https://t.co/WptKIt5ISh
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Omertà and the changing face of activism in sport Colin Kaepernick was the beginning of an end, Mohammed Salah is the start of a new beginning https://t.co/LVRWcv3J02
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The geopolitics of European football clubs' African sponsorships FC Barcelona's new shirt sponsorship deal with DR Congo comes hot on the heels of an AC Milan deal with the country https://t.co/wGdGIvZENP
@Fire_and_Skill #Geosport
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@Prof_Chadwick @Fire_and_Skill Another 'circuit player'? Head scratcher 🤔 #Network Jorge Mendes again? 🔄🤝⚽️💸 https://t.co/8plhoCjxHM
🚨 Dortmund have reached an agreement on personal terms with Fabio Silva. ✅📝 Wolves want €20M to agree to his sale. 💰 (Source: @SkySportDE)
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Darwin Nunez, Newcastle United and hierarchical power in interorganisational networks There's speculation that Saudi Arabian interests are governing player transfers, but this should be no surprise to anyone https://t.co/kAN07jeUKQ
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Darwin Nunez, Newcastle United and hierarchical power in interorganisational networks There's speculation that Saudi Arabian interests are governing player transfers, but this should be no surprise to anyone https://t.co/kAN07jeUKQ
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