⚽️Sportswashing is the practice of using major clubs to improve tarnished national reputations 🤔But do fans play a role? Dublin City University's Gary Sinclair spoke to Isaac Fanin on BBC World Service this morning about research in this area (begins at 41 minutes) bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17…

Here is the link to the study I am talking about here. It was written with colleagues from The Irish Institute of Digital Business and the Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) team. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Delighted to be on today. I enjoyed the chat.

I have written this piece on some interesting DCU research on fans' role in a sportswashing project - I find it really interesting how becoming richer than God hasn't affected some City fans' identity as an underdog the42.ie/man-city-sport…

How do Manchester City fans reconcile the misdeeds of their club's owners with their identity as supporters? Analysis by Colm Kearns Gary Sinclair Dublin City University & Jack Black Sheffield Hallam University rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

A new post from the TOHIF team in the LSE's British Politics and Policy Blog!... "How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories" LSE British Politics and Policy Jack Black Thomas Fletcher Dan Kilvington Gary Sinclair Theo Lynn Dr. Katie Liston | blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Excited for the start of DCU Business School International Teaching Week! Kicking off with a teaching symposium today. Participants will be delivering guest lectures and attending various events throughout the week. #DCUBS #InternationalTeachingWeek

I wrote an article for The Conversation based on the research the Tackling Online Hate in Football project Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) has been engaged in over the last couple of years. Dan Kilvington Mark Doidge Jack Black Dr. Katie Liston Thomas Fletcher Theo Lynn theconversation.com/euro-2024-foot…

Euro 2024: football is a magnet for online abuse – but it is also the ideal platform to challenge it bit.ly/4eyKC8b

Heads up - we've launched the #TOHIF newsletter! Subscribe to receive the latest updates, academic insights, and special reports on tackling online hate in football⚽️ Sign up ➡️ mailchi.mp/dcu.ie/tohif-n… Gary Sinclair Theo Lynn Dan Kilvington Mark Doidge Dr. Katie Liston Jack Black

Heads up - Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) is launching a newsletter to share their latest updates, academic insights, and special reports on tackling online hate in football 📷 Sign up 📷 mailchi.mp/dcu.ie/tohif-n… DCU Business School Jack Black Dan Kilvington Mark Doidge Dr. Katie Liston Theo Lynn Pierangelo Rosati

Politicians often use intl. sports events to gain favour, so elections and referenda held during these times can affect fan group tensions. Check out this paper on #Brexit and England’s disastrous #Euro2016 exit ➡️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Gary Sinclair Theo Lynn Pierangelo Rosati

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our paper on online discussions on taking the knee and (anti)racism has just been published with open access in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) doi.org/10.1080/136918…

Now available online... "The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing". Published in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… | Gary Sinclair

Our latest paper analyses 6,850 tweets on taking the knee during EURO2020, revealing how subtle racism and colour-blind attitudes were reinforced online. ⚽️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #TOHIF #Research #OpenAccess #FootballResearch #OnlineRacism #TakingTheKnee #EURO2020

We've got a podcast series! 🎙️ It will give you a succinct overview of the problem of online hate in sport - how it happens, why it happens, and what needs to be done to stop it. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7Bcxt3y2H…

As part of the Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) project, we produced a podcast on the research we have been working on over the last 3 years. The first of eight episodes is released today and the feed can be accessed on Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast apps. open.spotify.com/show/7Bcxt3y2H…

As football returns the Tackling Online in Football Tackling Online Hate in Football (TOHIF) Project featuring Dr Gary Sinclair Gary Sinclair, Prof Theo Lynn Theo Lynn and Dr Colm Kearns, have produced a podcast capturing three years of research of online hate in football. Listen here: launch.dcu.ie/4dvZmnw

Seven weeks on from #GirlsInGreen and allegations of abuses of power in the 1990s, what else did the investigation reveal about the legacy of women's soccer as an afterthought? For those who didn't catch yesterday's article 'The Sound of Silence' - independent.ie/sport/soccer/k…