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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

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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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Introduction image: Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash

Figure 1: Hulton Archive / Stringer; Getty Images

Figure 2: FABRICE COFFRINI / Staff; Getty Images

Section 3 image: Dmytro Aksonov; Getty Images

Figure 3: SOPA Images; Getty Images

Section 5 image: Thorsten Wagner / Stringer; Getty Images

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Video 1: courtesy of The Oxford Union Society

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