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Unintended consequences: the relationship between trains and football

Economic developments or decisions have consequences we can predict and others that are entirely unforeseen. One such example, discussed by Helen Paul in this article, is the development of modern football from the expansion of UK railway networks

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Economic decisions often have unintended consequences. Plans made to fulfil a certain set of goals can end up creating a range of unanticipated outcomes. These can be good or bad. A positive example is the development of modern football leagues in England which, perhaps surprisingly, has a lot to do with trains. The people who invested in, or managed, the early railways certainly could not have predicted how the new transport technology would create modern football.

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