Football

This is the first book to focus on the management of professional football clubs, providing a real-world insight into management principles and their practical application. Each chapter analyses the role played by a key leadership figure within a club, such as the owner, CEO, CFO, COO, director and ..

Football fans are passionate and devoted followers. They are also creators and dissenters, performers and producers. This volume analyses football fandom through the media that fans use to construct fandom itself. The Italian football stadium has a particularly rich history as a place of collective ..

Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe. These fans play an integral part in determining the identity of the football club they support. Many studies have focused on the intense rivalry between clubs, their fans and the ..

This is the first comprehensive book on history, culture and business of football in Asia. Authoritative and accessible, it will be required reading for students of sport studies, sociology, cultural studies and Asian studies._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Soc..

This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels._x000D_ It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

This special issue addresses the complex reality of community football organisations based within England, who are tackling major social issues, like social inclusion and health promotion. It outlines key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these is..

This special issue addresses the complex reality of community football organisations based within England, who are tackling major social issues, like social inclusion and health promotion. It outlines key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these is..

A lack of ‘sustainability thinking’ can be seen at the heart of many of the problems that football faces today, from the market-centred ideology, speculation and debt to the disenchantment experienced by football fans. Compiled by an international collaboration between an interdisciplinary network o..

When first published, Badfellas was lauded as a ground-breaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. Now re-issued with new chapters that cover the current crisis and demonstrate the continuing importance of critical, investigative m..

This book charts the diverse and changing face of football, from its origins in England to its adoption by other countries throughout the world. The globalized experiences that football has undergone is compared to those of baseball...

This book explores the social, cultural and political role of football in Africa by focusing on the issue of visibility in and outside the football arena._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society...