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Some links about the Olympic Games
Time to dig into the history of one of the the greatest quadrennial sporting events.
How well has Soccernomics aged?
Like an overpriced wine.
The World Cup, yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (in terms of return on investment)
Money, Money, Money by ABBA is played out in this context but that about sums it up.
TIL: a New York Yankees and LeBron James-led consortium has gained ownership of AC Milan
What’s the Italian equivalent of “it’s raining reddies”?
Denver Broncos to sell for $4.65 billion; Homer Simpson is not the buyer
‘It’s not the Dallas Cowboys but it’s a start.’
What are the odds of winning a protest at the Olympics?
Flip a coin. Heads we win, tails we lose and they get a few more coins as payment for protesting.
How to use data to build a Moneyball soccer team
Yeah, science (and soccer)!
The phoenix clubs of Yorkshire and their attempts at a renaissance
Can these phoenix clubs pull off into paradise again?
Dennis Rodman and his former coin-collecting agent
If you learn anything from this post, let it be the word ‘numismatist’.
Swiss Ramble's Twitter thread on Barcelona's financial troubles
The club that says they’re ‘más que un club’ will need to go on ‘menos que otros clubes’.
How billionaire sports owners use their teams to avoid paying taxes
Scumbags.
The dangers of the Premier League killing off lower league clubs in 1992
There were warnings of a financial gulf between the then-new Premier League and lower league clubs. Watch this 1992 news story that investigated it.
English football - would the clubs survive a cancelled season?
As football authorities postpone their respective seasons, FiveThirtyEight asks whether English clubs would recover if they were cancelled.