The Future of FootballChallenges for the Twenty-first

Century

Edited by: Jon Garland, Dominic Malcolm,Mike Rowe

(all University of Leicester)

London, Frank CassISBN: 0714650664

Price: £39.50/US$57.50

World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. On thefield, the richest European clubs have retained their pre-eminence, but withmultinational playing squads backed up by global marketing industries. Clubownership rests increasingly with impersonal shareholders, rather than localbusiness figures. Domestic and international football competitions are beingtransformed by the financial power of the mass media. The world’s top players arepaid far more than their peers from previous eras. This volume covers a wide rangeof topical issues which football players, fans and administrators will have to confrontin the years to come.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:IntroductionThe future of football, Jon Garland et al

Part 1 Football economics and lawThe peculiar economics of English professional football, Chris Gratton“Heads above water”: Business strategies of a new football economy, B. PierpointFootball and European law - who’s in charge? Ken Foster

Part 2 Football politicsFIFALAND and the men who made it, Alan TomlinsonThe administration of football in the 21st century, Pat DayDemocracy and fandom: developing a supporter’s trust at Northampton Town FC, BrianLomax

Part 3 Football and its communitiesThe changing face of football: stadiums and communities, John BaleExploring future relationships between football clubs and local government, Sean PerkinsFootball in the community - what’s the score? Neil Watson

Part 4 Football crowds and policingThe people’s game? football spectatorship and demographic change, Dominic Malcolm et alThe hooligans’ fear of the penalty, Jon Garland, Michael RoweTaking offence: modern moralities and the perception of the football fan, Carlton Brick

Part 5 Football players and refereesGlobal sport and the migration patterns of France ‘98 World Cup finals players - somepreliminary observations, Joe Maguire, Bob Pearton

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A Game for Rough GirlsA History of Women’s Football in Britain

London, RoutledgeISBN: 0415263387 (pb)

Price: £17.95/

This is the first book to offer an academic account of the development ofwomen’s soccer, perhaps the fastest growing sport in the world. The book takesas its central theme the revival of the game, from its origins as a spectator sportduring the First World War, through the ‘dark ages’ from 1921 to 1972 (duringwhich time women were banned from playing on Football League grounds), toits emergence as a global, mass-participatory and professional sport. The booktraces the game’s historical evolution in the UK, surveys the development ofthe game in the US, Europe and Africa, and offers a thorough critique of thecontemporary state of women’s football.

A Game for Rough Girls is the first book to properly theorise the developmentof the women’s game and to place it in the context of wider debates on genderand sport. As well as making a solid contribution to the academic literature,this book will also be a fascinating read for all discerning fans of worldfootball.

Contents

Introduction: Ladies Football or Women’s Soccer?

Part One: A History of Women’s Soccer in Britain

Part Two: The Rise of a Global Game1. Women’s Soccer in the US2. Women’s Soccer in Europe3. Women’s Soccer in Africa4. FIFA and the Olympic Movement

Part Three: A Professional Era5. Professional Women Players6. Coaching Women7. Coaching Women8. Women’s Soccer and the Media

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University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Football in France:A Cultural History

Geoff Hare

Oxford, Berg, 2003

256pp bibliog, indexISBN 1 85973 657 2 (hb) US$75ISBN 1 85973 662 9 (pb) US$25

France’s recent performance in the World Cup brought back painful memories of atime when France was a weak contender in world and European football - atime when national or club teams rarely won, and the French wererenowned for having little interest in the game. Today, football plays aunique role in French society. French players and coaches are highlysought after abroad and the national team has chalked up significantrecent victories, including a World Cup and European Championship. Thisbook is the first in English to examine the extraordinary cultural,economic, and political history behind French football’s developmentthroughout the twentieth century and up to the present day. It focuseson the past twenty years and concludes with a discussion of the falloutfrom the World Cup 2002.

Hare traces this gradual evolution of traditional French football valuesand explores the impact of new and controversial business practices.Have French football’s influential club chairmen sold out to businessvalues and television? Why has the national team been so successfulwhen club teams have not? How are top clubs being re-branded to catcha national and international audience of consumers? What role does themodern supporter play, and what are the links between businessmen,politics, and the commercialization of the sport? What is peculiarly Frenchabout French football, and what does football tell us about France? Harealso pays specific attention to issues relating to race and racism. Helooks at racist attitudes among players, and considers how the multi-cultural and multi-racial population of France is reflected in the nationalfootball team.

This book not only provides a fascinating cultural history of Frenchfootball, but also an engrossing account of how national identity andcommunity values are being transformed and reshaped in the globalmarketplace.

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Stafford

ISBN: 0745630502 (hb) £50.00 $54.950745630510 (pb) £12.99 $21.95

Beckham

Ellis Cashmoreshire University

Polity Press

There has never been an athlete quite like Beckham. Or, moreaccurately, there have been any number of athletes like him, but nevera celebrity. His global status is challenged only by Tiger Woods: all overthe world, people adore, venerate, even worship the boy withdecorously pale good looks and his ex-Spice Girl wife.

In the first serious analysis of Beckham and the culture of which he ispart, Ellis Cashmore strips away the public persona to examine the realreasons why he has become the celebrity athlete par excellence. Is itbecause he is a great football player? Because of his supermodel looks,or his debonair dress sense? His rejection of the macho values typicallyassociated with football? His marriage to Posh? Cashmore asks all thequestions but uncovers different answers. Beckham has come to thefore at a unique time in history: when celebrity is venerated, when sportis entertainment and when Essex boys are icons.

This is a book about the Beckham phenomenon. It examines the cult ofcelebrity, the changing configurations of the sports industry, theevolution of football culture, the role of advertising and marketing, theglobalization of sports, entertainment and music and, most centrally, theemergence of an individual who has transcended the traditionalboundaries between sport and entertainment.

Contents:1. Of Frogs and Princes.2. Disaster Or Deliverance?3. Into The Vortex.4. The Man Behind The Club Behind The Brand.5. The World is Not Enough. Well, Just About Enough.6. Sum of the Parts.7. Crying for England (Literally).8. Sex, Masculinity and The Temptation Of Gay Men.9. Mythmaking Business.10. When A Fairy Tale Tells The Story of its Own Production.11. Thieves Who Guard The Treasure.12. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire; Pop Star; Weakest Link; All Of The Above?

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King FootballSport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of

Radio and Newsreels, Movies andMagazines, the Weekly

and the Daily Press

by Michael Oriard

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press2001

ISBN 0-8078-2650-2 (pb) USD39.95

This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920sthrough the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeplyembedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills ofcollege and professional football firsthand during these years, manymore encountered the game through their daily newspapers or theweekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in thenewsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Askingwhat football meant to these millions who followed it either casually orpassionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a media-created world ofFootball and explores its deep entanglements with a modernizingAmerican society.

Football, claims Oriard, served as an agent of “Americanization“ forimmigrant groups but resisted attempts at true integration and racialequality, while anxieties over the domestication and affluence of middle-class American life helped pave the way for the sport’s rise in popularityduring the Cold War. Underlying these threads is the story of how theprint and broadcast media, in ways specific to each medium, werepowerful forces in constructing the football culture we know today.

About the author:

A former football player for Notre Dame and the Kansas City Chiefs,Michael Oriard is Distinguished Professor of American Literature andCulture at Oregon State University. He is author of four books onAmerican sport and sports literature, including Reading Football: Howthe Popular Press Created an American Spectacle, which focuses onthe sport from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

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Futebol:the Brazilian way of life

by Alex Bellos

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing2003

ISBN 0747561796 RRP £7.99

Futebol is an irresistible blend of history, anecdote and legend told withgreat humour and verve by the Guardian’s man in Rio. This title showshow Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil. The authortells the stories behind the great players, teams, and matches, and thestartling range of football spinoffs, such as Ecoball, played in therainforest and the truly alarming Footbull (yes with bulls).

Reviews:

‘A thrilling picture of Brazilian society and its football which neatly combinesreportage with sporting analysis’ —Robert McCrum, The Observer

‘In this magnificent book, Bellos has managed to perfectly capture the chaos andcorruption, and the romance and obsession and the feeling of what it’s like to live ina genuinely football-obsessed nation . . . it’s the human stones of dedication to thesport which remain long after you’ve put the book down ... Bellos has gone thatextra mile’ —Four Four Two

‘A captivating page-turner ... it brims with beguiling discoveries’ —Daily Telegraph

An affectionate and shrewd account of the game. The book is full of intriguingsidelights on Brazilian popular culture; its hedonism, piety and wondrousabsurdity’ —Guardian

‘Bellos’s descriptions of the sports rise are deft, but what really makes his bookexcellent are the chapters of reportage about its current hold on popularimagination’ —Financial Times

‘Fascinating ... superb’ —Times Literary Supplement

‘As beguiling , as surprising and as many-faceted as Brazilian football itself —Richard Williams

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Offside:Soccer and American

Exceptionalism

Andrei S. Markovits andSteven L. Hellerman

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001

ISBN: 0-691-07447-X (pb) $19.95 / £12.95ISBN: 0-691-07446-1 (hb) $70.00 / £46.95

Soccer is the world’s favorite pastime, a passion for billions around theglobe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ranbehind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America anexception? And why, despite America’s leading role in popular culture,does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is thefirst book to explain these peculiarities, taking us on a thoughtful andengaging tour of America’s sports culture and connecting it with otherFundamental American exceptionalisms. In so doing, it offers acomparative analysis of sports cultures in the industrial societies ofNorth America and Europe.

The authors argue that when sports culture developed in the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nativism and nationalism wereshaping a distinctly American self-image that clashed with the non-American sport of soccer. Baseball and football crowded out the game.Then poor leadership, among other factors, prevented soccer fromcompeting with basketball and hockey as they grew. By the 1920s, theUnited States was contentedly isolated from what was fast becoming aninternational obsession.

The book compares soccer’s American history to that of the majorsports that did catch on. It covers recent developments, including thehoopla surrounding the 1994 soccer World Cup in America, the creationof yet another professional soccer league, and American women’sglobal preeminence in the sport. It concludes by considering the impactof soccer’s growing popularity as a recreation, and what the future ofsports culture in the country might say about U.S. exceptionalism ingeneral.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALLHistory, Spectacle, Controversy

John Sayle Watterson

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

ISBN: 0-8018-6428-3 (hb) $34.95ISBN: 0-8018-7114-X (pb) $19.95

“Working with an impressive assortment of historical materials anddocuments, Watterson documents how, over the years, reformers havemade the game less hazardous for players and more exciting forspectators.” – Allen L. Sack, Chronicle of Higher Education

“A welcome addition to the small body of scholarship on the sport that,in its professional form, is the country’s favorite and, in its collegiateForm, is one of the single most distinguishing features of Americanhighes education... Watterson covers topics ranging from theIntroduction of female cheerleaders in the 1920s to the long, slowprocess of desegregation, but his book is primarily a clear-eyed, richly-detailed yet compact history of the fundamental contradiction at theheart of big-time college football: its role as an extracurricular activitywith purported benefits for players and student spectators alike and as asporting spectacle for mass entertainment.” -- Michael Oriard, AmericanStudies

“College Football is the best single volume for anyone who wants tounderstand how the game evolved and how larger political, social, andeconomic forces affected its development.” -- John M. Carroll, GeorgiaHistorical Quarterly

“Watterson... has poured his heart and soul into this big and mightybook... A thick, deeply argued book, full of passion, anecdote, and awell-reasoned... argument.” -- Steven P. Gietschier, Journal of IllinoisHistory

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International Society ofFootball Scholars

The precusor to the International Society of Football Scholars was theFootball Studies Group, which was founded in 1997 to bring togetherscholars researching in the area of football studies. The Group waslaunched at the inaugural Football Studies Conference, Football andIdentities, held at The University of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia.Since then, the Football and Culture conference was held at the VictoriaUniversity of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and the third conferenceof the Football Studies Group was held on the Sunshine Coast in 1999. In2002, the Football Studies Group was formally incorporated and re-named the International Society of Football Scholars.ISFS has an international membership with delegates researching

diverse aspects of football. The aim of the ISFS is to take an active role inthe scholarship of football and will be a conduit for research and thedissemination of that research, through conferences, newsletters and thejournal. In addition, the ISFS will foster greater cross-code and cross-cultural research and discussion of football’s role in society.

Football Studies, the Journal of the ISFS was the first journal devotedsoley to the cultural, social, political and economic study of footballcodes. A limited number of back issues remain.

Membership rates (in Australian dollars):

Individual: $39 (one year)/$75 (two years)Institutional: $75 (one year)

Please print and fill in the membership form on the Group’s website(www.footballstudies.com), and forward membership forms withpayment (in Australian dollars or credit card) to:

Dr Tara MagdalinskiUniversity of the Sunshine CoastMaroochydore DC QLD 4558AUSTRALIAfax: +61 7 5430 2885email: magdalinski@usc.edu.au

http://www.footballstudies.com

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