How the pandemic removed the home advantage in sports
Card count for home teams goes up in ‘ghost games’.
Lots of things stopped during the pandemic, including the home-game advantage in sports, according to a new study pub...
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A heart-stopping football match could stop the heart
Hospital admissions due to heart attack spiked during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
If you are getting stressed or angry when watching a tense football match, watch out – it could lead to heart attack....
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AFL concussion rule didn’t help recovery time in 2020
Despite the five-day rule, players returned to the field too early in 2020.
The AFL’s five-day rule designed to promote player recovery following a concussion may not have been effective in 202...
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The psychology of missing a penalty
How can football players with near-perfect ball control miss a goal?
The moments before a penalty kick are incredibly tense, and new research shows that brain activity might be the reaso...
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COVID Booster
The five new things science learned about COVID last week.
Schizophrenia and risk factor for COVID-19 deathA new study has shown that schizophrenia is the second biggest ri...
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Football shock! Referees turn out to be clever people
Study finds soccer officials look at the big picture rather than the details. Andrew Patterson re...
From the grandest stadia to the shabbiest park pitches, the job of soccer referees is a difficult and often thankless...
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Head injury risk higher for female soccer players
Brain imaging reveals gender makes a difference.
In a study published in the journal Radiology, the researchers responsible for a recent study illustrating the concus...
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Football violence driven by tribal loyalties
Soccer is known almost as much for its off-field fights as its on-field skills. New research prob...
The group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is drawing to a close and thus far, reports suggest the atmosphere in and ...
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Penalty rates: the science of World Cup football
A standing-start kick at the goal looks simple, but in reality it’s anything but.
The biggest sporting event of 2018, the FIFA World Cup, is under way and penalty kicks have been a prominent feature ...
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In football, slow-mo replays prompt harsher penalties
A study of referee reactions may bode ill for World Cup players. Andrew Patterson reports.
The controversial recent adoption in football of video assisted refereeing (VAR) is designed to aid the decision-maki...
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Socceroos unlikely to win World Cup
Chances of an Australian victory in the global football comp.
If a simulation he devised is any indication, decision analyst Steve Begg of the Australian School of Petroleum at th...
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Concussion risk from "heading" the ball
Headers, not accidental collisions, are the danger for football players.
Major changes to the way the world’s most popular sport is played may be drawing closer, after a new study revealed t...