Press Releases
Three of UK's Smartest Footballers Meet Three of England's Smartest Kids
For the last year the University of Warwick has run an innovative programme where 14 footballers study the business side of managing league and national football teams.
Warwick Parachute Display for Sports Week
The University of Warwick Parachute Club will be making a display jump on Wednesday 12 March as part of the Sports Week events.
Warwick Business School to turn football stars into future football managers
Today's football stars are to train to be future football managers at Warwick Business School (part of the University of Warwick). Warwick Business School has been commissioned by The Footballers' Further Education & Vocational Training Society Ltd (a body funded by The Professional Footballers Association), the FA Premier League, the Football League, the FA and The League Managers Association to provide a training programme to develop the management skills of footballers who want to become football managers.
University of Warwick And Radio Five Live Create "GARI 2002" To Predict World Cup Games
Risk researchers at the University of Warwick have been commissioned by Radio Five to produce a statistical model designed to predict the odds of every individual match in the World Cup.
Behaviour of Sports Stars is Evidence of the Original Amateur Basis of UK Sports Culture
A new book entitled Amateurism in Sport by University of Warwick researcher Lincoln Allison suggests that the valuable amateur ethos of UK sport may be dying but it has not been completely overwhelmed by professionalism and big business in fact the recent poor behaviour of UK football stars shows strong signs of UK sport's amateur roots.
Black Hole Research Shows UK Football is 30 times More Boring Than Any Other Country's
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick studying the extreme variability in X-rays emitted from matter falling into black holes, have discovered that their research methods also show that the world's top division football matches have an unusually large proportion of high scoring games – so much so that international football actually shows a pattern of "extreme events" similar to that seen in the large bursts of X-rays from the accretion discs of black holes. However, analysis of just English premier football league and cup games showed that English top division football is in fact 30 times less likely to have high scoring games than the rest of the world taken as a whole, and could thus be seen by some people as 30 times more boring.