Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures : Slum Sport, Slum People? / by Cyprian Piskurek.

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report'...

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Main Author: Piskurek, Cyprian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Series:Football research in an enlarged Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Recent History of English Football
  • 3. Football Fan Cultures and Their Structures of Feeling
  • 4. Fictionalising Football
  • 5. Players, Managers, and Chairmen
  • 6. Hooligan Fiction
  • 7. Fan Identities and Social Exclusion
  • 8. Conclusion.