Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of football.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Glossary.
Foreward.
1. The Essence of Football: the historical and social bases of the global game.
2. The Twentieth-century Sport: football, class and nation.
3. Spectator Cultures: passion at play in Europe and Latin America.
4. Football Grounds: emotional attachments and social control.
5. The Price of Victory: football finance and the television revolution.
6. Football's Players: from local heroes to international stars.
7. The Goal of Winning? football, science, tactics and aesthetics.
8. The Cultural Politics of Play: ethnicity, gender and the 'post-fan' mentality.
Afterword.
Notes.
References.
Index.
