Olympics

There’s scouting your opponents, and then there’s deploying spy tactics that even MI6 would be proud of. Helicopters, drones and scouts hiding in bushes: football is a sport in which any tactic will be used that can gain a team an edge over another. The Olympic Games are a big deal, of course, so you …

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In women’s football, the Olympic Games is huge – in fact, it’s second only to the World Cup in terms of prestige. But in men’s football, and specifically in the UK, the Olympics is bizarrely overlooked. For reasons that we’ll get into shortly, Team GB has barely entered a men’s team into the Games’ football …

Great Britain Continues to Resist the Lure of Olympic Football – And for the Strangest Reason Read More »