British Football & Social Exclusion, 1st Edition eBook

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This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of football culture and the political and academic debates that have accompanied these changes. English football in particular, it seems, is ‘fat city’. The Premiership, now eight years old, has, via satellite television, become a globalised phenomenon: there are Liverpool supporters in Bangladesh, Chelsea fans in sub-Saharan Africa and Manchester United followers across the globe. Grounds are full. Top class football attracts people to bars and pubs in huge numbers. Hooliganism appears a thing of the past. Everyone seems to love football and/or to support a team. The British football media are generally euphoric in their rendering of contemporary football culture. However, the contributors to this book argue that the heavily commodified, PR-driven and cartelised British football world, with which so many contemporary politicians and other public figures rush to identify themselves, has either created, exacerbated or continued to ignore serious problems of social exclusion problems of class and community, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age.

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British Football & Social Exclusion 1st Edition is written by Stephen Wagg and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for British Football & Social Exclusion are 9781135763923, 1135763925 and the print ISBNs are 9780714652177, 0714652172. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780714682044, 9780415345934, 9780203495315, 9786610225125, 9781280225123, 9781135763886, 9781135763930.