(This article was first published on Computing / Geek, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Quite a while ago my amazing wife asked me if it was possible to find the time of the first goal for the 2006 FIFA World Cup matches. I was using R at the time and thought it was possible. Here are the scripts I wrote to scrape the info from the FIFA website. They're also posted on my github here.
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