Introduction
Football (or soccer for the US and traditionalists), is the world's most popular ball game in terms of participants and spectators and it is certainly big business. The start of its massive appeal was its simple rules and equipment and it continues to allow this at grass roots level. The professional world is, as they might say, a completely different ball game.
Academics at the University, across a variety of disciplines, have developed different research projects on the topic and some of these are illustrated here.
