Routledge gives access to free scientific articles on sport

The articles are compiled to six themes:

Culture, society and media, where you can find articles such as:

• Football as code: the social diffusion of ‘soccer’ in South Africa
  By Lloyd Hill

• Confessional tales from former football hooligans: a nostalgic, narcissistic wallow in football violence
  By Jon Dart

• Women and gender in South African soccer: a brief history
  By Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak

History, where you can find articles such as:

• FIFA and the men who made it
  By Alan Tomlinson

• Global power struggles in world football: FIFA and UEFA, 1954–74, and their legacy
  By John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson
  
  

Economics, where you can find articles such as:

• Africans’ Status in the European Football Players’ Labour Market
  By Raffaele Poli

• The Political Economy of Mega-Stadiums and the Underdevelopment of Grassroots Football in South Africa
  By Peter Alegi

• The global game of football: the 2002 World Cup and regional development in Japan
  By John Horne
  
  

Politics and policy, where you can find articles such as:

• World Cup 2010: Africa’s turn or the turn on Africa?
  By Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed

• ‘Make Goals Not War’: The Contribution of International Football to World Peace
  By Peter Hough
  
  
• Sports as cultural diplomacy: the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa’s foreign policy
  By Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
  
  

Tourism, where you can find articles such as:

• The Potential Contribution of the 2010 Soccer World Cup to Climate Change: An Exploratory Study among Tourism Industry Stakeholders in the Tshwane Metropole of South Africa
  By I. Otto and E. T. Heath

• Mega Event = Mega Impact? Travelling Fans’ Experience and Perceptions of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Host Nation
  By Magdalena Florek ,Tim Breitbarth and Francisco Conejo

• The FIFA World Cup 2002: the effects of terrorism on sport tourists
  By Kristine Toohey , Tracy Taylor and Choong-Ki Lee
  
  

and Science and nutrition, where you can find articles such as:

• Alcohol and football
  By R. J. Maughan
  
  
• Decision-making skills, role specificity, and deliberate practice in association football refereeing
  By Peter Catteeuw, Werner Helsen, Bart Gilis and Johan Wagemans
  
  

A complete overview of the articles and access to download can be found here

The articles are available for download until 31 July 2010