Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Foreword by Richard Faulkner, Deputy Chairman of the Football Trust......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
FOOTBALL ON TRIAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF SOCCER AS A WORLD GAME......Page 16
THE ROOTS OF PLAYER VIOLENCE IN FOOTBALL IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 41
FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR......Page 52
FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM IN BRITAIN: 1880  1989......Page 86
SOCCER CROWD DISORDER AND THE PRESS: PROCESSES OF AMPLIFICATION AND DE-AMPLIFICATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 111
LIFE WITH THE KINGSLEY LADS: COMMUNITY, MASCULINITY AND FOOTBALL......Page 144
FOOTBALL SPECTATOR BEHAVIOUR AS A EUROPEAN PROBLEM: SOME FINDINGS FROM A COLLABORATIVE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF THE 1988 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS......Page 182
WHY ARE THERE NO EQUIVALENTS OF SOCCER HOOLIGANISM IN THE UNITED STATES?......Page 209
ENGLISH FOOTBALL AND THE HOOLIGAN CRISIS: PREVAILING POLICIES AND CONSTRUCTIVE ALTERNATIVES......Page 228
Index......Page 248