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16 June 2016<\/h5>\n

“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” \u2013 Bill Shankly<\/p>\n

If we are to agree with the great Bill Shankly, then we would not be surprised that a seemingly \u2018irrelevant\u2019 event during an election, such as a football match, could influence a national referendum.\u00a0 A number of academic studies have indeed found that a causal linkage can be found between sports events and elections.\u00a0 Why would this be the case?\u00a0 It can be explained by human mood, or what we now term \u2018Sports Sentiment\u2019.<\/p>\n

Professor Adrian Bell and Dina Ghanma, a\u00a0final year student studying the BSc Finance and Investment Banking course at the ICMA Centre,\u00a0speculate\u00a0that some interesting Euro 2016 results from England, Northern Ireland and Wales could influence the outcome of the EU referendum in a\u00a0joint blog post on the ICMA Centre’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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