Infectious diseases and football – lessons not only from COVID-19

Muñoz, Monica Duarte; Meyer, Tim

doi:10.1080/24733938.2020.1749422

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“…This, despite the fact that infectious disease outbreaks before mega-events have happened previously, although not necessarily diseases with pandemic status. Further, these have not necessarily led to event postponements or cancellations (Duarte Muñoz & Meyer, 2020;Parnell et al, 2020). One example of this is the Zika virus outbreak which occurred prior to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Parnell et al, 2020).…”

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Toward COVID-19 secure events: considerations for organizing the safe resumption of major sporting events

Ludvigsen

Hayton

2020

Managing Sport and Leisure

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The current COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted both elite and grassroots sports in a series of ways. Whilst accepting that many answers to emerging and relevant questions cannot be provided at this stage, this commentary discusses some of the organizational prospects of "post-pandemic" sports mega-events by focusing predominantly on the topics of volunteering and security management. Importantly, these are two central facets of mega-event organization that are likely to be impacted by the current crisis in some way as the world of sports aims to resume. By considering a number of emerging questions, this commentary calls for an engagement with some of the individual and social implications related to future mega-event organizations. It sheds light on some of the potential organizational challenges and management issues related to "restarting" sports and provides some directions for future interdisciplinary work.

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Toward COVID-19 secure events: considerations for organizing the safe resumption of major sporting events

Ludvigsen

Hayton

2020

Managing Sport and Leisure

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“…In regard to academic literature on Covid-19 and sport, it is too early to provide any substantive overview and analysis of published work in this field, particularly research that draws on social scientific perspectives. Published academic work thus far has largely focused on the direct health, social, and organizational impacts of Covid-19 on sport, such as the suspension or cancellation of elite sport events and activities, and debates on their future resumption; how best to provide professional support for elite-level athletes during the lockdown; and, the role of physical exercise and activities in maintaining health and wellbeing during quarantine (Corsini et al, 2020;Gallego et al, 2020;Jiménez-Pavón et al, 2020;Mohr et al, 2020;Muñoz and Meyer, 2020;Schinke et al, 2020;Toresdahl and Asif, 2020).…”

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Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

Giulianotti

Collison

2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This paper provides a systematic, detailed analysis of UK mass media online reports and narratives on sport and Covid-19 during the main lockdown period over March-May 2020. A “structuralist thematic” approach is utilized to identify and to map systematically the main themes within the mass media. The research is based on reports and narratives on sport-Covid which featured in five leading online UK mass media outlets. The analysis sets out four underpinning statuses or dimensions of sport: the existential, normative, socio-cultural, and political. These dimensions connect directly and, respectively, to four sets of binary opposite media themes on sport during the Covid-19 lockdown: sport as absence/presence, selfish/altruistic, crisis/escape, and threat/solution. Each theme features several types of media report or commentary (which we term “narrative or substantive strands”) on sport-Covid. The paper examines the four binary opposites, and their various types of media report and narrative, in detail. It concludes by discussing the theoretical contributions and substantive findings from the study, and some areas for future research.

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“…In recent months, much has been written by academics about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the football industry from a range of social, economic, cultural and health perspectives (for example, see Clarkson et al, 2020;Gouveia & Pereira, 2020;Kennedy & Kennedy, 2020;Moore, 2020;Muñoz & Meyer, 2020;Parnell et al, 2020aParnell et al, , 2020bReade et al, 2020). Included within many of these commentaries are brief discussions about the impact of football's disruption on fans, and when, if ever, spectators will be allowed to return safely to football stadiums in the future.…”

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confidence: 99%

“Will it ever be completely safe to be in a crowd again?”: the return of disabled supporters to football stadiums during COVID-19

Penfold¹,

Kitchin²

2020

Managing Sport and Leisure

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Our aim in this short article is to provide an analysis of the implications of reopening football stadium doors to a group that have not been at the forefront of management considerationdisabled spectators. In order to achieve this aim, we uphold a social model approach to disability to review the current spectator sport situation across English professional football and outline the problems posed for disabled fans. We then provide the context to disabled people's experiences in football fandom which have often been unsatisfactory. This context then underpins a series of implications that will arise from the reopening of stadia in England. To conclude this commentary, we provide several management recommendations that we argue should facilitate a more disability-inclusive restart for spectator sport.

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Infectious diseases and football – lessons not only from COVID-19

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Toward COVID-19 secure events: considerations for organizing the safe resumption of major sporting events

Toward COVID-19 secure events: considerations for organizing the safe resumption of major sporting events

Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

“Will it ever be completely safe to be in a crowd again?”: the return of disabled supporters to football stadiums during COVID-19

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