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Jeanette kicks off degree in football at university; Want to learn about football without the pain of playing? Then Glasgow University may have the answer. They are calling all students to learn about what really goes on behind the scenes at Scotland's clubs. Football fanatic Martin Murray went along to meet lecturer Jeanette Findlay and find out more.
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TO GRACE the turf at Hampden may be every Scottish schoolboy's
football dream.
Only a lucky few fulfil their dream but now there may be a new way
for supporters to get involved with the game - by going to
university.
Glasgow University will soon be offering a degree not in
philosophy, or early European literature, but in football.
They have already taken the first tentative steps by organising a
10-week course to discuss the game - not on the park but off it,
giving any...
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BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Leicester City fails as football feels pinch; In any other industry companies would be closed, but football clubs always find a deep-pocketed saviour.(Business)
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; FINANCIALLY SPEAKING, lower division football is having a bit of a nightmare. Leicester City, which collapsed into administration yesterday, is not the first non-Premier League club to suffer such a fate this season following the well-publicised demise of ITV Digital earlier this year - and
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Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Town halls are on the ball Football clubs can't afford to alienate local authorities and communities
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Football's broke; Kenyon wants to halve number of professional clubs.
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Football: Inside Football: Direct action enables fans to make inroads; Government initiative encourages supporters to take active role in clubs but at lower level difficulties emerge once finances have been stabilised.(Sport)
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Parliament - Football: Fans to get help buying shares in clubs
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