Encyclopedia Of British Football

Author : Richard Cox,Dave Russell,Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000144147

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Encyclopedia of British Football by Richard Cox,Dave Russell,Wray Vamplew Pdf

This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions and organisations as well as key issues such as gender, racism, commercialization, professionalism and drugs, alcohol and football.

Author : Phil Soar,Martin Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 0002180499

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Encyclopedia of British Football by Phil Soar,Martin Tyler Pdf

Author : Phil Soar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 0002182904

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Encyclopedia of British Football by Phil Soar Pdf

Author : When Saturday Comes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780141927039

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When Saturday Comes by When Saturday Comes Pdf

The best chants, the funniest nicknames, the greatest headlines and enough little-known facts to keep the average football supporter entertained - and entertaining - for several seasons. This is the story of the greatest game on earth, from 'abandoned matches' to 'Yeovil Town', via celebrity fans, mascots, punditry and superstitions, written from the fan's point of view and with a separate entry for every club in the English and Scottish leagues. Who cares why, if Torquay United's strikers had been more prolific in the 1950s, England may never have won the World Cup; or where football hooliganism actually began; or who the hell Captain Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam is? We do. Because as every true student of the game knows: it's important.

Author : Nick Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 184451403X

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Total British Football by Nick Holt Pdf

Football has been central to the British culture since the late-nineteenth century. From stadiums to world cups and from Stanley Matthews to Michael Owen, this book covers what the football fans need.

Author : Richard J. Shmelter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786469505

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The USC Trojans Football Encyclopedia by Richard J. Shmelter Pdf

For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks. Eleven national championships, 38 conference titles, 150 All-Americans, and seven Heisman Trophy winners all stand as testaments to the greatness of the Cardinal and Gold. This definitive reference chronicles the history of USC football from its first-ever game on November 14, 1888--a 16-0 victory over the Alliance Athletic Club--through 2012. Synopses of each season include game-by-game summaries, final records, ultimate poll rankings, and team leaders in major statistical categories. Biographies of head coaches and all-time USC greats, a roster of every player to don a Trojan uniform, a look at USC football traditions, and a catalog of honors received by both players and coaches through the years complete this essential encyclopedia for the Trojan faithful.

Author : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319777276

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The British Football Film by Stephen Glynn Pdf

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game’s importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race, gender and even the whole notion of ‘Britishness’.

Author : [Anonymus AC01784199]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 185986127X

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The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History by [Anonymus AC01784199] Pdf

The 2nd edition is up-to-date with current events to 1997, coverage beginning in prehistory. People, places, events, movements, terms, battles are all included with specially commissioned photographs, maps. chronologies, quotations and feature articles which look at British history in context.

Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0714652504

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British Sport by Richard William Cox Pdf

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135287214

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British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000 by Richard Cox Pdf

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Author : David Levinson,Karen Christensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195131956

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Encyclopedia of World Sport by David Levinson,Karen Christensen Pdf

Contains essays concerning various sports or sports topics, from acrobatics to yachting, giving both American and international coverage

Author : Tom Gibbons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317142980

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English National Identity and Football Fan Culture by Tom Gibbons Pdf

In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George’s Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically ’English’ identity. This has emerged as part of a wider ’national’ response to broader political processes such as devolution and European integration which have fragmented identities within the UK. Using the controversial figurational sociological approach advocated by the twentieth-century theorist Norbert Elias, this book challenges such a view, drawing on ethnographic research amongst fans to explore the precise nature of the relationship between contemporary English national identity and football fan culture. Examining football fans’ expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalization, European integration and UK devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St George’s Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically ’English’ national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex, multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalization amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of sport, fan cultures, globalization and contemporary national identities.

Author : Matthew Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870074

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The Association Game by Matthew Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Sharon W. Propas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317216483

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Victorian Studies by Sharon W. Propas Pdf

First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.

Author : Peter Childs,Mike Storry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415147262

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture by Peter Childs,Mike Storry Pdf

Culture is defined in its broadest sense and areas covered include architecture, consumerism, education, ethnicity and belief, fashion and design, film and cinema, gender and family, intellectual life, literature, media, music, performing arts, politics and society, recreation, sport, video and television, visual arts, and youth culture."--Jacket.