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Walking at Speed: Walking Football as a Codified Sport, Its Global Footprint, and Its Place Among the Football Variants

Posted on July 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Walking football is the youngest widely played code in the football family and the only one whose defining rule constrains the human gait rather than the pitch, the ball, or the number of players. Invented in England in … Continue reading →

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Satellite A — The Super League Mirror

Posted on May 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The nine core papers analyzed college sports as a closed enterprise whose powerful members strain against an insulation they cannot see. This satellite paper tests the volume’s keystone against a different system, European club football, in which the same … Continue reading →

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Cooperative Media Rights and the Championship: Financial Implications of a Unified Negotiating Architecture for English Professional Football

Posted on May 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary English professional football currently operates a bifurcated media rights market in which the Premier League negotiates as a closed shop of twenty clubs while the English Football League negotiates separately for the seventy-two clubs across the Championship, League … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Asymmetry of Descent — What Relegation Means for a Prestige Club Versus an Experienced One, and the Current Case of Tottenham Hotspur

Posted on April 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract As the 2025-26 Premier League season enters its final six matches, the football world confronts what one commentator has called “a seismic event in the modern Premier League era”: the realistic prospect of Tottenham Hotspur, one of English football’s … Continue reading →

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A Journalist Always Has Enemies

Posted on December 12, 2022 by nathanalbright

Friday, while watching the World Cup Quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands, American soccer writer Grant Wahl collapsed and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Having been both estranged from the Qatari government and of sound health, it … Continue reading →

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On The Constrained Optimization Of World Cup Draws

Posted on April 1, 2022 by nathanalbright

In a few hours as I write this, a group of people will oversee the draw for the World Cup that takes place later this week in Qatar. 29 of the 32 teams have already qualified, and there remain several … Continue reading →

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On Not Taking Care Of Business

Posted on March 25, 2022 by nathanalbright

By way of introduction, I would like to begin by saying that my view of professional athletes in general is that they are usually grossly overpaid and like most professional entertainers have an overly inflated view of their importance and … Continue reading →

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Let Them Kiss

Posted on January 10, 2022 by nathanalbright

In the 1982 World Cup there was an incident of collusion between two teams for a mutually advantageous result that was so flagrant that it became known, among other things, as “Disgrace of Gijón”, and it changed how it was … Continue reading →

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Quality Will Out

Posted on June 23, 2021 by nathanalbright

There is a cliche that is said often in soccer matches–and I have seen enough soccer matches to know–that quality will out. Yet this does not always happen. Anyone who has painful memories, for example, of the disastrous qualifying campaign … Continue reading →

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You Never Really Arrive

Posted on June 11, 2021 by nathanalbright

As I have commented before when it comes to my dreams, one of my foremost patterns within dreams is the inability to find people or arrive at places. Perhaps because finding and looking for things is such a poignant and … Continue reading →

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