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Plastic Fantastic Cambridge

13 Mar 2024

Cambridge University Association Football Club (CUAFC) will wear a design that copies the match kit from their 1905 Varsity fixture with Oxford for...

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A group of student footballers wearing University of Cambridge kit

University of Cambridge and Cambridge United announce strategic partnership

25 Oct 2023

The University of Cambridge and Cambridge United Football Club have agreed a new partnership with the shared ambition of working together to help the...

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Fighting for the rights of football fans

02 Feb 2022

How a Cambridge researcher fought for the rights of football fans and won.

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Argentina fans at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Underdogs, curses and ‘Neymaresque’ histrionics: Cambridge University Press reveals what’s been getting us talking this World Cup

13 Jul 2018

Cambridge University Press has revealed the results of its global study into the language used around the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

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‘Para Ingles ver’ (for the English to see): the other side of the World Cup

05 Jul 2014

Brazilians are famous for their love of football but millions of ordinary people are angry at the huge sums spent on the World Cup. Lucy McMahon, a...

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Beckham 2

Becksistentialism

17 Jul 2013

A Cambridge lecturer has been imagining the inner monologue of David Beckham as he encounters the works of the great French philosophers during his...

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Jean Paul Sartre on the beach

Locked in combat: two French thinkers slog it out

31 May 2012

“Hell is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. His rival on the stage of occupied and post-war Paris was Albert Camus (“I am the world”). The two...

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Johan Cruyff at the 1974 World Cup Final.

The beautiful, neglected game

26 May 2011

Millions of people will tune into the Champions’ League Final this weekend; billions watch the football World Cup. But despite its popularity...

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Fabio Capello

Which 100 words of English should Fabio learn?

12 Apr 2011

Following the media coverage of England football manager Fabio Capello’s claim that he only needs ‘100 words of English’, Cambridge Dictionaries...

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