The game of football has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. Aware that the game may afford a space for

As the digital revolution continues apace, emergent technologies and means of communication present new challenges and opportunities for the football industry.

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�

This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politic