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| Author | : Paul Brown |
| Publisher | : Goal Post |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0995541221 |
How did we become football fans? Savage Enthusiasm traces the evolution of the football fan from the sport's earliest origins right up to the present day, exploring how football became the world's most popular spectator sport, and why it became the undisputed game of the people.
| Author | : Don Price |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2016-05-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1524632562 |
Like most kids back in the day, Don dreamt of being a professional footballer and scoring the winning goal at Wembley. Unfortunately for Don, he was not much good at football. He grew up in Manchester in the fifties and sixties, and even joining the Royal Navy in the late sixties did not dampen his passion or enthusiasm for the game. Don founded one of the largest football supporters branches in the country and was chairman of it for ten years. This is a gripping account and a humorous look back at his time in the Royal Navy and the supporters branch meetings including sportsmens dinners, and charity events he organised with some of the top names in British football. Celebrity guests included Kevin Keegan, Nick Leeson, and Francis Lee. He also recounts some of the hilarious away trips he organized. It is a real life supporters story that will appeal to all football fans.
| Author | : Wen Zhu |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0231160909 |
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elderly neighbor for a few hundred yuan. The bemused antihero of "Reeducation" is appalled to discover that, ten years after graduating during the pro-democracy protests of 1989, his alma mater has summoned him back for a punitive bout of political reeducation with a troublesome ex-girlfriend. "Da Ma's Way of Talking" is a fast, funny recollection of China's picaresque late 1980s, told through the life and times of one of our student narrator's more controversial classmates; while "The Apprentice" plunges us into the comic vexations of life in a more-or-less planned economy, as an enthusiastic young graduate is over-exercised by his table-tennis-fanatic bosses, deprived of sleep by gambling-addicted colleagues, and stuffed with hard-boiled eggs by an overzealous landlady. Full of acute observations, political bite, and piercing insight into friendships and romance, these stories further establish Zhu Wen as a fearless commentator on human nature and contemporary China.
| Author | : M. Hopkins |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2014-05-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113734797X |
Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan behaviour from leading experts in the fields of criminology, law, sociology, psychology and cultural studies.
| Author | : Geoff Pearson |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2024-07-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1526186004 |
This book, available in paperback due to popular demand, is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years' participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporter – the ‘carnival fan’ – who dominated the travelling support of the three teams observed – Manchester United, Blackpool and the England national team. This accessible account follows these groups at home and abroad, describing their interpretations, motivations and behaviour and challenging a number of the myths about ‘hooliganism’ and crowd control. The text will be of value to anyone studying, researching or interested in ethnographic modes of enquiry or the behaviour of football fans. In particular it will be of value to anyone involved in the academic disciplines of policing, criminal justice, sociology, criminology, sports studies and research methods. It also makes recommendations for the management of football crowds that will be of use to practitioners involved in policing, crowd control and event management.
| Author | : Adrian Tempany |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2016-05-20 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 057129510X |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE FEATURED IN THE OBSERVER'S SPORTS WRITERS' BOOKS OF THE YEAR On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgotten, disenfranchised. In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interviews, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21? Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.
| Author | : Luke Holizna |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2021-09-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781956178005 |
From pregame snacks to overtime, a football party is always great. This little guy's the biggest fan and knows just how to celebrate-alongside someone special on the sofa-and he just can't wait. But, what a shame. In gearing up to watch the Steelers Monday night, he's half-asleep before the kickoff . . . sure to miss an awesome show. The good news: Dad has got a "trick play." Everything will be alright, 'cause after all, there's more than just one way to score some points, you know! When love's the goal, a Dad with soul will always prove a pro.
| Author | : Steve Almond |
| Publisher | : Melville House Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 161219415X |
With American Football becoming an increasingly popular sport in the UK, concerns are also being raised about the health impact the sport can have on players. The scary facts about American football causing brain injury have become a hot topic in the media, especially as the same worries are surfacing for other full contact sports such as rugby. Steve Almond was a keen American football fan, but, in light of recent scientific studies about the prevalence of injuries within the sport has slowly turned against the game.
| Author | : Jim Keoghan |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2014-04-23 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1909626740 |
Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. The fan-ownership movement has touched every echelon of the game. There have been highs and lows, successes and failures, but through it all the dogged determination of fans to be more than paying customers has shone through.
| Author | : Eric Simons |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2013-04-04 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1468307584 |
In this accessible study, a journalist examines the science, philosophy, and sociology behind being a sports fan. Sports fandom is either an aspect of a person's fundamental identity, or completely incomprehensible to those who aren’t fans at all. What is happening in our brains and bodies when we feel strong emotion while watching a game? How do sports fans resemble political junkies, and why do we form such a strong attachment to a sports team? Journalist Eric Simons presents in-depth research in an accessible and brilliant way, sure to interest readers of Malcolm Gladwell. Through reading the literature and attending neuroscience conferences, talking to fans, psychologists, and scientists, and working through his issues as part of a collaboration with the NPR science program RadioLab, Eric Simons hoped to find an answer that would explain why the attractive force of this relationship with treasured sports teams is so great that we can’t leave it. Praise for The Secret Lives of Sports Fans “Adroitly mixing research with feature reporting, Simons unveils some intriguing discoveries. . . . There’s a lot of science to digest, but Simons’s affable writing style—and his great eagerness to profile actual people, including himself—infuses the data with heart and soul.” —Publishers Weekly “An intriguing ride through “all the wondrous quirks and oddities in human nature.” —Kirkus Reviews
