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Football: The First Hundred Years
The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the …
Cricket and England
Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.
Terrace Heroes
The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol - prototype for today's powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of professionals, yet until …
The Magic of Indian Cricket
In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become …
Mediated Football
Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit and often hidden discourses …
COVID-19 and the Soccer World
The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security …
Ethnicity, Sport, Identity
The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in …
Football, Community and Social Inclusion
This special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to …
Olympics in Conflict
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Olympics played an important role in the politics of the Cold War and was part of the conflicts between the Capitalist Block, the …
Sport and Apartheid South Africa
As athletes of today grapple with how to use their public platforms to fight for activist causes, Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest …
Sport, Race and Ethnicity
Analyses of racialisation processes within and beyond sport would be incomplete without a consideration of ethnicity and ethnic identities. Why? Because ethnicity, as a concept and …
The Making of Sporting Cultures
The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a …