Footballers taking penalty kicks are sometimes sacrificing the best shots to prioritise their credibility, suggests an award-winning study co-authored by James Reade @jjreade.bsky.social.

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March 21 Alex Krumer, Molde University College, “Religion, Football and Reconciliation. Evidence from Israel”

February 28 Tazio Panzani, University of Perugia, “How Fans React to Prices and Performance: Historical Evidence from Italian Serie A”

February 21 Scott R. Baker, Kellogg School of Management, “Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting’s Impact on Vulnerable Households”

We then wrap up on Saturday afternoon with Oldham's crunch National League clash against Sutton United.

Discounts for students and #oafc season ticket holders, register now and join us next month!

The event is sponsored by Sports Economics Review, a journal published by Elsevier.

The event runs all of Feb 14, with our evening speaker being Avram Grant (former Chelsea and West Ham manager), and moderator is Daily Mail journalist and #oafc fan Mike Keegan.

On Saturday historian Tony Collins will talk about how Oldham became a football town.

Join us for what will be a fascinating day and a half of talks from a whole host of contributors - from Price of Football author and podcast host Kieran Maguire, Christina Philippou and Stefan Szymanski on football finance, to Jack Coles and David Sharpe on football analytics.

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February 7 Dave Berri, Southern Utah University, “Exploring the Gender Wage Gap in a World of Exogenous Revenues. The Case of Professional Basketball” @wagesofwins.bsky.social

January 31 Jennifer Dorling, Bond University, “Mental Toughness in Sports People”

January 24 David Castells-Quintana, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, “Club football and economic dynamism: A regional analysis for Europe”

Note that January 20 is the Abstract submission deadline for the Second University of Maryland Baltimore County Sports Economics Conference. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract, with contact information, to Dennis Coates coates (at) umbc.edu.

January 17 is currently a free slot (a previous calendar conflict I had on this date has been resolved) - get in touch if you would like to present.

January 10 Rhys Murrian, Monash University, "Friends, Key Players and the Adoption and Use of Experience Goods”

And, fwiw, I recognise I could be wrong! I know I'm not on the losses, but perhaps Tamworth don't care about touts.

I was very wrong about the prospect we might get a new owner, let alone one better than the last one, as bad as he was. I'm very pleased I was wrong on that, too!

Let's agree to differ? I believe touting to be an issue that matters here and would mean significant revenues going to touts rather than a tiny, loss-making NL club.

You don't, and that's fine.

We can both at least agree that it would be nice if ticket prices were lower?

I'm not saying it's impossible.

What I'm saying is that despite technology it remains an issue. So I suspect it's not that easy to solve.

And it's certainly not going to be National League Tamworth that solve it for a one off cup match.

Who enforces the non transferability of a ticket?