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A selection of articles in which we are referenced, and interviews we have given about sporting statues:

• August 2022; Feature on the George Camsell statue at Middlesbrough FC, appearing on the Middlesbrough FC website.
• June 2022; Feature on lack of statues featuring female athletes, including interview with us, on Sky Sports News.
• February 2022; Feature on the Brian Clough statue in Middlesbrough and its possible relocation, appearing in the Middlesbrough FC match programme.
• November 2021; Feature on the UK's football statues in The Athletic.
• June 2021; Feature on lack of statues featuring female athletes, appearing in Daily Telegraph.
• May 2021; Feature on statues featuring women cricketers, appearing in The Times.
• August 2020; Feature on UK sports statues featuring BAME athletes, appearing on BBC Online and BBC News.
• 3rd January 2020; Feature on US sports statues in the Louisville Courier Journal and USA TODAY.
• 11th September 2019; Feature on the Tayla Harris statue, and the gender divide in sports statues, in The Guardian.
• 28th August 2019; Feature on the Johann Cruyff statue at Barcelona, and football statues more generally, in El Periodico.
• 24th July 2019; Feature on the baseball statues in The OCR.
• 2nd June 2019; Feature on Kurt Landauer statue at Bayern Munich, and German football statues more generally, in Münchner Merkur.
• December 2018; Series of articles about different English football statues, featuring various quotes and comments from us, in L'Equipe: article 1; article 2; article 3; article 4; article 5.
• 21st December 2018; Feature on French football statues and the Raymond Kopa statue unveiling in Reims, in Le Monde.
• 17th October 2017; Interview about football statues on Howard Pressman's Show, BBC Radio Sheffield.
• 8th October 2017; Feature on football statues in The Guardian 'Knowledge' section.
• 15th April 2017; Feature on the world's football statues, in Publico, Portugal.
• 15th April 2017; feature on Jackie Robinson's statue at LA Dodgers, in USA Today; also in MSN news; The Daily Mail; ABC news; NBC Los Angeles; Japan Times.
• 14th April 2017; interview about Jackie Robinson's statue at LA Dodgers, on US National Public Radio's Only a Game.
• 11th April 2017; feature on Jackie Robinson's statue at LA Dodgers, in The LA Times.
• 4th April 2017; feature on the world's football statues, in L'Equipe (scan from print version).
• 31st March 2017; feature on badly-sculpted football statues, including mention of our project The Daily Mail.
• 22nd November 2016; radio interview on football statues, on Ray Stubb's TalkSport 2 show.
• 14th September 2016; feature on baseball statues, in The Hardball Times.
• 8th July 2016; feature and radio interview on statues of Roberto Clemente, including comments from us, on BBC Mundo.
• 26th February 2016; feature on football statues, including comments from us, in The Football Pink.
• 27th August 2015; column on cricket statues, including coverage of our databases, in The New Statesman.
• 7th March 2015; feature on football statues, including comments from us, in The Times. (scan from print version).
• 1st February 2015; feature on our football statues database, from fantagazzetta.com (Italy).
• 8th August 2014; interview about the Sports Statues Project on the Statistics View blog.
• July 2014; quiz based on our football statues database, from www.linternaute.com (France).
• 26th July 2014; interview about sports statues on Sportshour, BBC World Service.
• 12th July 2014; football statues database coverage in The New Yorker.
• 11th July 2014; football statues database coverage in quartz.com.
• 22nd June 2014; a short film about cycling statues made as part of Sheffield University's 'Deconstructing The Tour' feature on the Tour De France.
• 6th June 2014; football statues database coverage in La Repubblica (Italy).
• 20th May 2014; football statues database coverage in sportgeschiedenis.nl (Netherlands).
• 20th May 2014; football statues database coverage in panenka.org (Spain).
• 8th May 2014; football statues database coverage in The Big Issue.
• 6th May 2014; football statues database coverage in Excelsior (Mexico).
• 4th May 2014; football statues database coverage in Elf Freunde (Germany).
• 3rd May 2014; football statues database coverage in Das Tagespeigel (Germany).
• 18th April 2014; football statues database coverage in Glasgow Evening Times; and live TV interview on BT Sport's Baker and Kelly's V.S.P.O.
• 14th April 2014; football statues database coverage in: The Allrounder; Rivista (Italy).
• 11th April 2014; football statues database coverage in Sheffield Telegraph.
• 10th April 2014; football statues database coverage in L'Equipe (France); vi.nl (Netherlands).
• 9th April 2014; football statues database coverage in: The Bolton News; When Saturday Comes; BlogPreston.
• 8th April 2014; football statues database coverage in: Stadionwelt (Germany); Organizacion Editorial Mexicana (Mexico); Lancashire Evening Post; Sheffield Star; Gazzetta (Greece); Talksport (interview).
• 7th April 2014; football statues database coverage in: Daily Record; Yorkshire Post; BBC online; sofoot.com (France); Dutch Referee (Netherlands); BBC Radio Newcastle (interview); BBC Radio Sheffield (interview).
• 5th April 2014; football statues database coverage in: Espectador (Uruguay); Trivela (Brazil); Estadao (Brazil); LanceNet (Brazil); Mondo (Serbia).
• 7th January 2014; project coverage in Bohuslaningen (Sweden) discussing the forthcoming football statues website.
• 18th November 2013; project coverage on Sports On Earth discussing baseball statues across the US.
• 2nd November 2013; project coverage on the Gammons Daily blog proposing a statue of Red Sox star David Ortiz.
• 24th July 2013; coverage in the Toronto Star discussing the new statue at the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 9th July 2013; interview for BBC Radio Sheffield discussing statues of cricketers around the world.
• 5th July 2013; interview for BBC Radio Nottingham discussing cricket statues.
• 5th July 2013; article in Wall Street Journal, discussing the cricket statues database.
• 2nd April 2013; interview in Detroit Free Press, discussing the baseball statues database.
• 15th March 2013; article in Baseball Prospectus, discussing the baseball statues database.
• 6th-11th March 2013: A variety of blog articles discussing the baseball statues database. Buzzfeed; Baseball Reflections; SABR; Very Spatial; Baseball Thinkfactory; Baseball Revisited;
• 7th March 2013; interview on National Public Radio's Only A Game, discussing the baseball statues database.
• 6th March 2013; article in Minnesota Star Tribune discussing the baseball statues database.
• 6th March 2013; article on CBS Sports discussing the baseball statues database.
• 5th March 2013; article in the New York Times discussing the baseball statues database.
• 5th March 2013; article in The Guardian discussing the baseball statues database.
• 5th March 2013; interview in The Guardian US discussing the baseball statues database.
• 23rd December 2012; article in The Independent on Sunday discussing football statues in the UK.
• 2nd December 2012; article for ESPN discussing statues of footballers in Germany.
• 6th November 2012; interview on BBC Radio Manchester discussing the forthcoming Sir Alex Ferguson statue.
• 23rd August 2012; article in The Guardian discussing potential statues of British Olympians.
• 22nd August 2012; interview on BBC Radio Sheffield discussing potential statues of British Olympians.
• 21st August 2012; article in the Sheffield Star discussing potential statues of British Olympians.
• 3rd May 2012; article in the Newcastle Chronicle discussing the Sir Bobby Robson and Tyneside rowers statues.
• 11th April 2012; article in Classic and Sports Car discussing our documentation of statues of racing drivers.
• 15th April 2012; discussion on NPR Radio's Sports And Life: Head-To-Head show discussing our article on subject selection in baseball statues.
• 11th April 2012; article in Classic Car Weeklydiscussing our documentation of statues of racing drivers.
• 29th March 2012; article in the Sunderland Echo discussing the North-East's sporting statues.
• 27th March 2012; article in the Sheffield Star discussing the region's sporting statues.
• 24th March 2012; interview on BBC Radio Scotland, discussing Scotland's sporting statues.
• 23rd March 2012; article in the Yorkshire Post discussing the UK's sporting statues.
• 22nd March 2012; article on BBC Online discussing the UK's sporting statues and the launch of this website, with a photo gallery.
• 22nd March 2012; interview on BBC Radio Sheffield, discussing Sheffield's sporting statues.
• 2nd March 2012; article in Reading Chronicle discussing the growth in numbers of football statues in the UK.
• 3rd February 2012; article in Backpass Magazine discussing the growth in numbers of football statues in the UK.
• January 2012; Article in Elf Fruende discussing the growth in numbers of football statues Europewide (written in German).
• 13th September 2011; article in the Yorkshire Post, discussing subject selection in the football and baseball statuary.
• 3rd August 2011; article in the Sheffield Star, discussing subject selection in the football and baseball statuary.
• 27th July 2011; interview on BBC Radio Coventry and North Warwickshire, discussing the Jimmy Hill statue.
• 19th July 2011; interview on BBC Radio Coventry and North Warwickshire, discussing statues of UK footballers.
• May 2011; article in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, discussing the Jimmy Hill statue.
• 29th May 2011; interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, discussing baseball statues.
• 14th February 2011; interview on BBC Radio Wiltshire, discussing the first British footballer to be honoured with a statue, Swindon Town's Harold Fleming.

A selection of past press releases:

• 24th February 2022; Why Slaven is offside with his petition to move Brian Clough’s statue from its Albert Park home. (with Dr Tosh Warwick) Download Press Release.
• 5th April 2017; Jackie Robinson’s forthcoming statue breaks new ground. Download Press Release.
• 7th April 2014; World's first first ever database of football statues. Download Press Release.
• 5th March 2013; World Baseball Statues Database Unveiled. Download Press Release.
• 16th April 2012; Academic study predicts Yastrzemski and Seaver next in line for baseball statues. Download Press Release.
• 22nd March 2012; Academics compile UK´s first ever database of sporting statues. Press Release.
• 12th February 2012; Allcock, Ashman and Gavin are appropriate City statue candidates. Download Press Release.
• 14th September 2011; Academic study predicts Yastrzemski and Seaver next in line for baseball statues. Download Press Release.
• 12th September 2011; Study predicts Jimmy Dickinson and Jimmy McIlroy next in line for football statues. Download Press Release.
• 26th July 2011; Study heralds Jimmy Hill as Britain’s 50th football statue. Download Press Release.