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Did England’s early World Cup exit boost English tourism? Did the Jabulani make shots less accurate? Can a soccer ball boost business productivity?

Football Management: England’s early World Cup exit boosted English tourism, and other deceptive correlations

This just in: The Jabulani made no difference to shot accuracy (Touch and Tactics)

The decline, fall and remaining prostrate of World Cup TV punditry (twohundredpercent)

WSC: In defense of card-waving (sort of)

Zonal Marking’s final World Cup final analysis begins: basic shapes and pressing

Tom Dunmore on the example rugby is setting for soccer on dealing with homophobia

The history of the U-20 Women’s World Cup…now on in Germany (Tom Dunmore/Pitch Invasion)

The sOccket ball: Play and plug (Miriti Murungi/Nutmeg Radio)

James Hamilton asks: What is the connection between poverty and skill on the ball?

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Neville’s Wonder Strike Against HomoFrancophobia

Gary Neville’s kiss on the lips of Paul Scholes last Saturday — “normally expected of the male lead in a Jennifer Aniston movie” — has gotten explosive media play…and might get Neville invited to Manchester Pride days this August. But as much as the smooch has resurrected the UK’s latent homophobia, it provokes an even more irrational hatred: that of the French and their effete, kissing men. (Paul MacInnes/The Guardian)