International audienceHow can we explain economically the shift from the people’s game to the global game? Why Manchester City, for example, whose origins lie in parochial paternalism at St Mark’s, can today adopt a strategy of global football domination through the City Football Group? The answer to these questions is, of course, multifaceted and based on a non-linear history. Football was very popular from its origins until the 1950s and 1960s. The beautiful game then entered its “dark” period for various reasons: recession in the 1980s, obsolescence of the stadiums, hooliganism, among others. The “renaissance” from the 1990s onwards was driven in particular by the creation of the Premier League, the very strong growth in TV rights and th...
© 1997 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.In the 1990s, English professional football has undergone rapi...
International audienceIs the cultural globalisation of sport compatible with the mythical character ...
Football was until recently considered to be a European and South American sport. Not until the Worl...
International audienceHow can we explain economically the shift from the people’s game to the global...
ABSTRACT Since its humble beginnings as a rural British folk game, football has developed into a sp...
Contemporary football represents a highly commodified spectacle, a segment of the entertainment i...
Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating doma...
The great interest in Asia for European, male football is an expression of globalised sports. Here g...
Globalisation has had different implications for professional club football in Europe and the global...
Responding to recent attempts to redirect academic analysis of English football within the context o...
Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across ...
Is an economie history of French soccer possible ? Jacques Marseille. Through the mass of spectators...
Globalisation isn’t everyone’s bottle of coke, and it’s an especially dirty word when applied to cul...
«Footballization» of politics? Culture of consensus and football in Britain Patrick Mignon The idea...
Societies contact more with each other as a result of the increase in communication possibilities an...
© 1997 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.In the 1990s, English professional football has undergone rapi...
International audienceIs the cultural globalisation of sport compatible with the mythical character ...
Football was until recently considered to be a European and South American sport. Not until the Worl...
International audienceHow can we explain economically the shift from the people’s game to the global...
ABSTRACT Since its humble beginnings as a rural British folk game, football has developed into a sp...
Contemporary football represents a highly commodified spectacle, a segment of the entertainment i...
Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating doma...
The great interest in Asia for European, male football is an expression of globalised sports. Here g...
Globalisation has had different implications for professional club football in Europe and the global...
Responding to recent attempts to redirect academic analysis of English football within the context o...
Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across ...
Is an economie history of French soccer possible ? Jacques Marseille. Through the mass of spectators...
Globalisation isn’t everyone’s bottle of coke, and it’s an especially dirty word when applied to cul...
«Footballization» of politics? Culture of consensus and football in Britain Patrick Mignon The idea...
Societies contact more with each other as a result of the increase in communication possibilities an...
© 1997 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.In the 1990s, English professional football has undergone rapi...
International audienceIs the cultural globalisation of sport compatible with the mythical character ...
Football was until recently considered to be a European and South American sport. Not until the Worl...