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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fear and loathing in world football. Oxford : Berg, 2001 (OCoLC)607032151 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Armstrong; Richard Giulianotti |
| ISBN: | 1859734588 9781859734582 1859734634 9781859734636 |
| OCLC Number: | 46694532 |
| Description: | xiv, 304 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction, Fear and loathing : introducting global football oppositions / Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti -- Can't live with them. Can't live without them : reflections on Manchester United / Carlton Brick -- Cruel Britannia? Glasgow Rangers, Scotland and 'hot' football rivalries / Richard Giulianotti and Michael Gerrard -- Real and imagined : reflections on football rivalry in Northern Ireland / Alan Bairner and Peter Shirlow -- Lion roars : myth, identity and Millwall fandom / Garry Robson -- 'Those bloody Croatians' : Croatian soccer teams, ethnicity and violence in Australia, 1950-99 / Roy Hay -- Football, ethnicity and identity in Mauritius : soccer in a rainbow nation / Tim Edensor and Frederic Augustin -- 'Team loyalty splits the city into two' : football, ethnicity and rivalry in Calcutta / Paul Dimeo -- Basque football rivalries in the twentieth century / John Walton -- Players, patrons and politicians : oppositional cultures in Maltese football / Gary Armstrong and Jon P. Mitchell -- Viking and farmer armies : the Stavanger-Byrne Norwegian football rivalry / Hans Hognestad -- Competition and cooperation : football rivalries in Yemen / Thomas B. Stevenson and Abdul Karim Alaug -- 'Colours make me sick' : America FC and upward mobility in Mexico / Roger Magazine -- Three confrontations and a coda : Juventus of Turin and Italy / Patrick Hazard and David Gould. Olympic Mvolyé : the Cameroonian team that could not win / Bea Vidacs -- Treacheries and traditions in Argentinian football styles : the story of Estudiantes de La Plata / Pablo Alabarces, Ramiro Coelho and Juan Sanguinetti -- Ferencváros, Hungary and the European Champions League : the symbolic construction of marginality and exclusion / János Bali -- Afterword, Constructing social identities : exploring the structured relations of football rivalries / Richard Giulianotti and Gary Armstrong. |
| Series Title: | Global sport cultures. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
'Football academics and students of sociology are this book's obvious market. But it would be a shame if it was lost to the general reading public.' The Independent'[This book's] appearance is yet more evidence of the growing respectability of football as an area for academic study ... Packed with information and insights into some of the major conflicts and rivalries of domestic support around the world.'When Saturday Comes 'Armstrong and Giulianotti have delivered a finely crafted anthology that does contribute to the literature on football and reminds that, at its heart, football is about deeply felt and symbolically charged antagonisms.'Soccar and Society Read more...
