Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Steph Doehler and Ben Oakley.

The authors would like to thank Jim Lusted and Nichola Kentzer for their help and generous assistance with developing this course. Thanks also goes to Alan Bairner, Carrie Dunn and Alan Tomlinson for their contributions.

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Images

Figure 1: Michael Zagaris; Getty Images:

Section 1 image: Fauzan Saari on Unsplash

Figure 2: Left: Stringer; Getty Images; Centre: Michael Zagaris; Getty Images; Right: Plumb Images; Getty Images

Figure 3: Eddie Keogh - The FA; Getty Images

Section 3 image: meunierd; Shutterstock.com

Section 4 image: Denis Linine; Getty Images

Audio-visual

Audio 1: FIFA: Football, Power and Politics; BBC Sounds, 29 May 2011

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