The Football Grounds of Europe
Author: Simon Inglis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780002183055
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Football Grounds in Britain and Europe - Part 3
Author: Steve Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-01-10
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 1326149245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the years, I have seen more than a thousand football matches at locations across Britain and Europe, from grounds that were little more than park pitches to some of the world's best stadia. This volume contains a further one hundred football ground visits, extending into Europe to visit some of the major stadia, as well as visiting new grounds in the UK as more teams relocated in the early years of the century.
Europe United
Author: Matt Walker
Publisher: riverrun
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781787476134
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Author: Stuart Fuller
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780711032866
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The European Ritual
Author: Anthony King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1351890263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFootball constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider process of European integration. The examination of football illuminates how the growing dominance of the free market has changed European society from an international order in which the nation-state was dominant to a more complex transnational regime in which cities and regions are becoming more prominent than in the past. The study is supported by detailed ethnographic accounts emerging from the author's fieldwork at Manchester United and interview data with some of the most important figures in European football at clubs including Juventus, Milan, Bayern Munich, Schalke and Barcelona. It also includes a highly topical examination of racism in European football.
European Football and Collective Memory
Author: W. Pyta
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-25
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1137450150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.
Over Land and Sea
Author: Mark Worrall
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2004-09-10
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1904744273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the final day of the 2002 / 2003 football season Chelsea Football Club recorded a famous 2-1 victory over Liverpool, thereby qualifying to play in the following seasons European Champions League competition. Resigned to losing Gianfranco Zola, who had recently been voted the club's greatest ever player, and with no money available for Chelsea's charismatic coach Claudio Ranieri to strengthen the squad, the prospects for the coming season looked to be self-limiting. That had been the general consensus of Marco, Young Dave, Ugly John, Ossie and the rest of the Chelsea Gate 17 boys as they frittered away the summer months waiting for the new European campaign to begin. Enter Roman Abramovich. The billionaire Russian oligarch purchased the club and financed a spending spree unprecedented in the history of the game. 'Glorious unpredictability,' that's what Marco called it ...that Chelsea factor, you just never knew what was going to happen next. Whatever it was, the Gate 17 boys had no intention of missing any of it ...they'd even planned to make a spiritual pilgrimage to Sardinia to watch their hero Zola. Over Land and Sea re-writes the current trend in depressingly violent football literature.
European Football in Black and White
Author: Christos Kassimeris
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780739119600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropean Football in Black and White offers an engaging interpretation of a disturbing phenomenon in Europe's favorite sport: football violence fueled by racism. While many fans across Europe have used football to further destructive ethnocentric agendas, there are also pan-European initiatives in the football stadium to combat the almost endemic problem. Christos Kassimeris analyzes political ideologies that have influenced football supporters, drawing attention to the increasing politicization of football and the footballization of politics. He also considers the contributions of nationalism, social class, and media coverage before assessing attempts by various groups, from the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network to the European Union, to rectify the problem. Ultimately, he concludes that football needs to be dissociated from both racism and politics for the sport to flourish. Unlike more traditional attempts to explain football violence and racism, this book seeks to establish a Europe-wide as well as a national explanatory framework for racism from a political perspective. This study will draw the interest not only of scholars across the humanities and social sciences, but also of ordinary football supporters. Book jacket.
Stadium Worlds
Author: Sybille Frank
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1136949240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. An international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives are set in four thematic sections bring together with particular focus on the stadium. Texts and case-studies make this a useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.
Football in Neo-Liberal Times
Author: Peter Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 131757625X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the nature of modern professional football and section two highlights attempts, via government agency and football clubs, to corral fans into ever greater identification with business logic aimed at breaking traditional social relations. Section three draws on a number of cases studies across Europe, to analyse how some fans are attempting to mount a counter ideological response to the assault of neo-liberalism on the game.
