The association game : a history of British football
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The association game : a history of British football
Routledge, 2016
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-490) and index
"First published 2008 by Person Education Limited" -- T.p. Verso
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Description
The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the establishment of the earliest clubs in the nineteenth century to its place as one of the prominent and commercialised leisure industries at the beginning of the twenty first century. It covers supporters and fandom, status and culture, big business, the press and electronic media and development in playing styles, tactics and rules.
This is the only up to date book on the history of British football, covering the twentieth century shift from amateur to professional and whole of the British Isles, not just England.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Introduction: Football, History and Britain
Early Years, c. 1863-1885
The Making of British Football, 1885-1914
Football Between the Wars, 1914-1939
The Golden Age of British Football?, 1939-1961
Glory and Decline, 1961-1985
Football's Revolution, 1985-2000
Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index
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