Punk Football

Author : Jim Keoghan
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781909626362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punk Football written by Jim Keoghan and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim Keoghan was drawn into a world in which ordinary fans have started new clubs, taken a stake in those they once followed, and sometimes saved clubs from disappearing altogether. The fan-ownership movement has touched every echelon of the game, challenging the private model that has dominated soccer for over a century. There have been highs and lows, successes and failures, but through it all the dogged determination of fans to be more than paying customers has shone through. Regarded as a revolutionary force in modern sport, the story of Punk Football is one that will appeal to every fan who has ever thought, "I could run this club better myself."

Author : Conor Curran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351171666
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Association Football in Irish History written by Conor Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses association football’s history and development in Ireland from the late 1870s until the early twenty-first century. It focuses on four key themes—soccer’s early development before and after partition, the post-Emergency years, coaching and developing the game, and supporters and governance. In particular, it examines key topics such as the Troubles, Anglo-Irish football relations, the failure of a professional structure in the Republic and Northern Ireland, national and regional identity, relationships with other sports, class, economics and gender. It features contributions from some of today’s leading academic writers on the history of Irish soccer while the views of a number of pre-eminent sociologists and economists specialising in the game’s development are also offered. It identifies some of the difficulties faced by soccer’s players and administrators in Ireland and challenges the notion that it was a ‘garrison game’ spread mainly by the military and generally only played by those who were not fully committed to the nationalist cause. This is the first edited collection to focus solely on the progress of soccer in Ireland since its introduction and adds to the growing academic historiography of Irish sport and its relationship with politics, culture and society. The chapters in this book were originally published an a special issue in Soccer & Society.

Author : Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317576268
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football in Neo-Liberal Times written by Peter Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Author : David Finoli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738536750
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birthplace of Professional Football written by David Finoli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of the history of professional football in Southwest Pennsylvania.

Author : Dino Numerato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317432711
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Fans, Activism and Social Change written by Dino Numerato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind, this book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Presenting a comparative study of fan activism in national and transnational contexts, it explores the characteristics of each country’s football fan culture as well as the varying and at times volatile dynamics between fans, authorities and the mass media. Its chapters address key themes and issues including: fans’ reactions to policing and security measures in football stadiums; the socio-cultural significance of symbols and rituals for fans at football games; and fans’ critical engagement with football club ownership and management. Offering original insights into the power of fan activism to influence social change, this book has wider implications for understanding social movements in other cultural and political spheres beyond Europe. Football Fans, Activism and Social Change is fascinating reading for all students, scholars and football fans with an interest in sport studies, fan culture, politics and society.

Author : Adam Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317969057
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football and Community in the Global Context written by Adam Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within popular discourse and amongst academics, politicians and policy makers. It has become something of a ‘buzz’ word, wheeled out as both a lament to more certain times and as an appeal to a better future: a term imbued with all the richness associated with human interaction. ‘Community’ has also been employed increasingly within football, for instrumental reasons concerned with policy and stadium redevelopment, and in broader rhetoric about clubs, their localities and fans. This book brings together a range of key debates around contemporary understandings of ‘community’ in world football. Split into four sections, it considers political and theoretical debates around football and its connection with community; different national and ethnic football communities; instrumental uses of football to bridge gaps within and between groups; future directions in the football and community debate. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

Author : Kieran James
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244332347
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Australian Football Golden Era 1984-86 written by Kieran James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the memoir of Kieran James, and details his experiences as co-founder of West Perth Football Club's unofficial cheer squad from 1984 to 1986. The book details "traditional", "hot" support for West Perth Football Club among teenaged supporters from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. The book shows how, because of neo-liberal ideologies and the corporatization of football, the new national league (the "expanded VFL" / AFL) relegated the WAFL to a second-tier league in 1987. This move took place over the heads of ordinary football supporters and two WAFL club presidents. Moves to bring the game closer to the people in 1984, such as holding the best-and-fairest award count night at Perth Entertainment Centre, should be seen in this light. This book will allow supporters to relive great teams, great players, and great matches from a wonderful era in WA football 1984-86 before West Coast Eagles joined the expanded VFL.

Author : CARLES;PARRA VINAS (NATXO.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786806710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Pauli written by CARLES;PARRA VINAS (NATXO.) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From German unification to the birth of the Bundesliga and beyond, this book tells the history of Germany's cult football club and its famously left wing fan base.

Author : Kieran James
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244979332
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fucking Hostile: West Perth Football Hooligans 1984-86 written by Kieran James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fucking Hostile: West Perth Football Hooligans 1984-86", by Kieran James (trade paperback, B&W printing). (Book is dedicated to Mick Van Duren.)

Author : Philip H. Backshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244685592
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence F.C.: West Perth Football Hooligans 1984-86 written by Philip H. Backshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: