Modern Football Is Rubbish

Author : Nick Davidson
Publisher : Sportsbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781899807901
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Football Is Still Rubbish written by Nick Davidson and published by Sportsbooks. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt were hoping that their first book, Modern Football is Rubbish, would put right all the ills of the present day game. But, amazingly, the administrators at club and national level took no notice and the putrification of the beautiful game continued. Hence they return - slinging mud at what's left of the game they love.

Author : Jim Keoghan
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785319329
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t? written by Jim Keoghan and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the sight of half-scarves enrage you? Does transfer-deadline day make you want to throw a brick through the TV? Do the opening bars of goal music make your ears bleed? If the answer is 'yes', then this could be the book for you. Since English football's very own 'Year Zero' in 1992, the game has changed beyond recognition, rejecting the rough-and-ready days of the past. And like any change, not all of it has been welcome. The quality of the 'football product' might be better but it's come with spiralling levels of debt, yawning inequality and Neymar advertising batteries. These, and many other ills of the modern game, form Jim Keoghan's exploration of the nation's favourite pastime. Navigating a world populated by dodgy owners, celebrity referees and Ray Winstone's floating head, he searches for an answer to the question: Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?

Author : Cyprian Piskurek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319767623
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures written by Cyprian Piskurek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report' suggested a number of measures for stricter regulation of fan crowds. In consequence, stadiums in the top divisions were turned into all-seated venues and were put under CCTV surveillance. The implementation of these measures reduced violent incidents drastically, but it also led to an unparalleled increase in ticket prices, which in turn significantly altered the demographics of the crowd. This development, which also enabled football's entry into other mainstream cultural forms, changed the game decisively. Piskurek traces patterns across prose and film to detect how these fictions have responded to the changed circumstances of post-Taylor football. Lending a cultural lens to these political changes, this book is pioneering in its analysis of football fiction as a whole, offering a fresh perspective to a range of scholars and students interested in cultural studies, sociology, leisure and politics.

Author : M. Flisfeder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137361514
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zizek and Media Studies written by M. Flisfeder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film, media, and cultural theorists have long appealed to Lacanian theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. Here, the contributors take up a Zizekian approach to studies of cinema and media, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual difference, and enjoyment.

Author : Mark Perryman
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910924091
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1966 And Not All That written by Mark Perryman and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique 50th anniversary collection of superlative writing and new football thinking. A first-ever oral history of ’66 combined with match reports provided by writers from each of the countries England played, create a highly original view of the tournament - how the fans watched the games, the stadia, the newspaper and TV reporting are each revisited. The politics, music and fashion of ’66 are examined too, exploring the forces of fan resistance in England and Germany that have found common cause in opposition to the corporate take over of the game, as well as the entirely new ranking system that calculates England’s fall, and occasional rise, from 1966 to 2016, showing who has overtaken England and why.

Author : Richard Foster
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1912317702
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football's Flaws & Foibles written by Richard Foster and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there's another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves, designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless. Football's Flaws & Foibles looks at some of the biggest transgressions and dissects just what lies at the heart of our annoyance. Featuring contributions from Kevin Day, Daniel Storey and more, this book provides moments of catharsis and debate in equal measure. If you've ever paid for a plane to fly a banner over a football ground then this may not be the book for you, but for the rest of us this is a place to wallow in collective frustrations.So if you have ever been irritated, enraged, aggravated or exasperated by the game you love, this book is very much for you.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178335061X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas written by Anon and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how to build a football club? What a typical match day feels like for the players on the pitch and those behind the scenes? From scouting systems to managing the big names (and their egos), merchandise deals to hotel life, the Secret Footballer takes you into the fascinating world of professional football and shows us the hidden side of a world we think we're familiar with. We get the fights and fornication, the revenge stories and scandals; he profiles the legends as well as the backroom boys and the unsung heroes. Funny, shocking and always entertaining, this is the Secret Footballer at his most revealing and irreverent yet.

Author : David Conn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richer Than God written by David Conn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Lovejoy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409060411
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lovejoy on Football written by Tim Lovejoy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade to become as much a part of a football fan's weekend as phone-ins, back-page EXCLUSIVES and the vidiprinter. But why does Tim love football? Is it actually the most important subject in the world? And did he really once support Watford as a kid? Lovejoy on Football gets down to the nitty gritty of the really important stuff in football, such as: Why he, Tim, is technically a rubbish football fan; Women's true place in football; How 'Save Chip' became the biggest football cause in the country; Why it's a bad idea to hammer Razor Ruddock; And why footballers are in fact underpaid. Packed with amusing anecdotes, bustling with great football stories and full of strong opinions, Lovejoy on Football is the must-have football book of 2007.

Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317413954
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body written by Jean Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For researchers of bodily adornment and movement, sport and costume history are both primarily concerned with industrial practice and embodied experience. The ways in which bodies are adorned, embellished and clothed (or revealed) highlights the hybrid nature of dress history, encompassing as it does the everyday clothing solutions of the mass of people and the unusual or more ceremonial aspects of costume, as well as elite high fashion. Although this is as yet an under-researched area, there are an increasing number of fashion and clothing undergraduate and postgraduate courses that specialise in sport and leisurewear. This publication is intended to give an introductory overview of the historical and contemporary issues as it does for the growing number of sport marketing and sports studies courses concerned with dress, costume history and branding. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.