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Controversy, celebration, and commiseration in football are, and have always been, unavoidable - whether on the pitch, around the pitch, or in the corridors of the sports governing bodies such as FIFA, UEFA, or the FA. This collection of eleven essays on key topics - including globalization, racism, violence, consumption, corruption, and fandom - helps readers to get an analytical grasp on the sport and assess its contemporary cultural significance. Each chapter provides an overview of the best scholarship on football in society, illustrated with an example of doing research into football. This book provides a valuable and timely contribution to understanding football in its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Professor John Horne FAcSS, School of Sport and Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, UK This book is not just the first proper textbook on the subject of football, it is a must for any serious-minded follower of the often not-so-beautiful game. Jim White, Daily Telegraph

Controversy, celebration, and commiseration in football are, and have always been, unavoidable - whether on the pitch, around the pitch, or in the corridors of the sports governing bodies such as FIFA, UEFA, or the FA. This collection of eleven essays on key topics - including globalization, racism, violence, consumption, corruption, and fandom - helps readers to get an analytical grasp on the sport and assess its contemporary cultural significance. Each chapter provides an overview of the best scholarship on football in society, illustrated with an example of doing research into football. This book provides a valuable and timely contribution to understanding football in its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Professor John Horne FAcSS, School of Sport and Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Controversy, celebration, and commiseration in football are, and have always been, unavoidable - whether on the pitch, around the pitch, or in the corridors of the sports governing bodies such as FIFA, UEFA, or the FA. This collection of eleven essays on key topics - including globalization, racism, violence, consumption, corruption, and fandom - helps readers to get an analytical grasp on the sport and assess its contemporary cultural significance. Each chapter provides an overview of the best scholarship on football in society, illustrated with an example of doing research into football. This book provides a valuable and timely contribution to understanding football in its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. - Professor John Horne FAcSS, School of Sport and Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, UK This book is not just the first proper textbook on the subject of football, it is a must for any serious-minded follower of the often not-so-beautiful game. - Jim White, Daily Telegraph Thankfully, it is with pleasure that I can report that whilst the tome is thoroughly researched and written with academic rigor, Studying Football is an incredibly enjoyable and accessible book even for readers not used to such writing styles... Studying Football is a smart and clever collection which I would heartily recommend to all fans of the game. - Kieron Casey, www.the-totality.com

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Ellis Cashmore is the author of Making Sense of Sports, Celebrity Culture (both Routledge) and Beckham (Polity). He is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University, UK and tweets @elliscashmore Kevin Dixon is the author of Consuming Football in Late Modern Life (Ashgate), ""A woman's place recurring: Structuration, football fandom and sub-cultural subservience"" (in Sport in Society) and co-editor of The Impact of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties (Palgrave). He is senior lecturer of sports studies at Teesside University, UK and tweets @KevinDixon20

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