Showing posts with category "world cup"

IRB Rugby World Cup Statistics

The International Rugby Board (IRB) report on the analysis of match statistics from the 2011 World Cup was released recently (see the report here). It paints

Inter Milan 3 Manchester City 0

I attended the Inter Milan-Manchester City "friendly" last night at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Here is an article describing the game. From my

Baltimore's World Cup Chances

Last summer, 72,000 fans packed M and T Bank Stadium in Baltimore to watch a "friendly" between Chelsea and AC Milan. This summer, with less than two weeks

World Cup finances & knock-on effects

This BBC story has a number of figures on the costs and revenues of staging this year's World Cup in South Africa.  Among them (in British pounds):

Make or Buy?

Barcelona or Real Madrid?  Barcelona makes them.  Real Madrid buys them.  It's a matter of degree of course, but I think the distinction holds.  Rob Hughes

Qatar and/or Bust

Today FIFA announced that the 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia, while the 2022 version will be held in Qatar, a country roughly the size of Connecticutt

Not a Good Performance Evaluation

The AP headline is:  "US soccer pres: We failed to meet expectations."  There's not much else in the story, apart from a statement that Sunil Gulati "will

FIFA fun

Skip called attention to a op-ed I published in the LA Times. An upshot of the piece, and similar ones in other papers, was that I received an email from

God Save the Queen and English Football

Here at EZDzine, we're not just sports economists but also sports fans, and therefore there was a healthy degree of rivalry between our American

World Cup Bid 2018/2022

Stephen J. Dubner blogged about a report I wrote about the 2018/2022 World Cup bid a group of Americans has put together. I read comments on the blog and felt