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Author: Deirdre Hynes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 184888172X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. From club-sponsored outreach initiatives to organisations that bring together a team's supporters, football clubs play a vital role in building and sustaining communities. This volume explores the significance and value of such activities, as well as the critical issues they raise.
Author: Deirdre Hynes
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789004371972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Amara
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-11-24
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0230359507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context.
Author: Kelly D. Mosier
Publisher:
Published: 2012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-16
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1317981715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs to compete at the highest levels. In critical studies, supporters have been portrayed as passive or reluctant consumers who, imprisoned by enduring club loyalties, embody a fatalistic attitude to their own exploitation. As this book aims to show, however, such expressions of loyalty are far from hegemonic and often interface haphazardly with traditional ideas about what constitutes the ‘loyal fan’. While there is little doubt that professional football is experiencing commodification, the reality is that football clubs are not simply businesses, nor can they ever aspire to be organisations driven solely by expanding or protecting economic value. Rather, clubs hover uncertainly between being businesses and community assets. Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football explores the implications of this uncertainty for understanding supporter resistance to, and compromise with, commodification. Every club and its supporters exist in their own unique national and local contexts. In this respect, this book offers a Euro-wide comparison of supporter reactions to commercialisation and provides unique insight into how football supporters actively mediate regional, local and national contexts, as they intersect with the universalistic presumptions of commerce. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author: Murray Books
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780980382983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. Each The league's teams are divided into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). conference is then further divided into four divisions consisting of four teams each, labeled North, South, East, and West. During the league's regular season, each team plays sixteen games over a seventeen-week period, generally from September to December. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single- elimination tournament that culminates with the NFL championship, the Super Bowl. Football is a complete history of the game, the players and the excitement. The book includes the rules of the game, tactics and how to play. Shaped as a football, the book is a must for all football fans.
Author: Jason Mitchell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1291012109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2005, while researching the implications of the Civil Partnerships Act, HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry concluded that 6%% of the population of the United Kingdom should be classed as gay; one in every 16.6 people and an estimated 3.5 million people in total. As of 2012, there are over 4,000 professional footballers currently playing the game in England alone. Despite this, there are currently no openly gay professional footballers in the country. However, to suggest that this issue is exclusive to English football would be drastically wide of the mark. In actual fact, this complete lack of openly gay professional players can be observed throughout all of the top professional football leagues across the world. 'A Culture of Silence' tells the story of football's problematic relationship with homosexuality and of the homophobia that, unquestionably, still plagues the sport.
Author: Daniel Parnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 131751775X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to social agendas, such as social inclusion and health promotion. The positioning of football as a key agent of change for this diverse range of social issues has resulted in an increase in funding support. Despite the increased availability of funding and the (apparent) willingness of football clubs to adopt such an altruistic position within society, there remains limited empirical evidence to substantiate football’s ability to deliver results. This book explores the current role of a football and football clubs in supporting and delivering social inclusion and health promotion to its community and seeks to examine the philosophical, political, environmental and practical challenges of this work. The power and subsequent lure of a football club and its brand is an ideal vehicle to entice and capture populations that (normally) ignore or turn away from positive social and/or health behaviours. The foundations of such a belief are examined, outlining key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these social and health issues through the vehicle of football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
Author: The Huntsville Times The Birmingham News (& The Mobile Press-Register)
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Calvin
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1473553733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of NO HUNGER IN PARADISE Outside the global spotlight, footballers don't drive Aston Martins or pose for underwear ads. This is war. This is life. This is football. Michael Calvin turned up for the first day of pre-season training at Millwall FC. 333 days later, he sat among the subs at Wembley. Over the course of a season, he witnessed the intimate everyday life of a football club far from the glitz and glamour of the Premier League, and the unique characters that come together every day on the field. These are dedicated, hard-working family men, close to their roots, 'playing for the people who hate their jobs, who'd love our lives.' Forget about the over-hyped circus of the Premier League. This is the beautiful game in all its raucous glory: essential reading for anyone whom football is a way of life.
