Duncan Stephen

Human-centred decisions

Tag: Fifa World Cup

  • The England v Colombia World Cup reports you were never meant to see

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    The England v Colombia World Cup reports you were never meant to see The Independent provides a peek behind the curtain of football match reporting with a tight deadline. Here are two unused match reports written for completely different outcomes of the England v Colombia match. It’s interesting how both examples almost completely fizzle out […]

  • Generative Worldcup Poster 2018

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    Generative Worldcup Poster 2018 an experiment with world cup statistics API and canvas to generate abstract patterns for each game. These are beautiful.

  • Six Lions

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    Six Lions Nick Barlow reflects on the meaning of “football’s coming home”, and the differences between the original version of the song Three Lions and the 1998 version. I enjoyed reading this because I had found myself getting annoyed about the way people were saying “football’s coming home”, completely forgetting that there was a second […]

  • Chinese firms pile in to sponsor World Cup 2018 amid Fifa fallout

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    Chinese firms pile in to sponsor World Cup 2018 amid Fifa fallout As Western firms have begun to desert Fifa due to the corruption scandal, Chinese firms have seized the opportunity to “to get their brands in front of billions of global eyeballs”. It has been noted that companies are more willing these days to […]