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Global and local football. Politics and Europeanisation on the fringes of the EU (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)

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Author(s): Gary Armstrong
Edition: 1
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 224

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Series editors’ preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: Europeanisation and football......Page 14
1 Team selection: Producing the nation......Page 32
2 New tactics: Producing difference......Page 50
3 Football and politics: Traditions and modernities......Page 65
4 Playing to the big-men: Patronage and party......Page 80
5 Professions of faith: Footballing modernities......Page 105
6 The bigger they come: The price of football......Page 121
7 All the President’s men?: Follow the money......Page 145
8 Getting into Europe: Global flows of talent......Page 157
9 Foreign fan clubs: The global in the local......Page 175
Epilogue: The just man in Malta......Page 203
Notes......Page 211
Bibliography......Page 216
Index......Page 220