Product Description: Les tribunes sont le lieu veritable des mysteres du football. Parler du Stade et des tribunes, c'est faire mieux comprendre le football a ceux qui ne le connaissent pas ou bien qui s'en mefient, comme l'on se mefie d'une sorte de maladie sociale ou d'une religion un peu sectaire...read more

Product Description: Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan behaviour from leading experts in the fields of criminology, law, sociology, psychology and cultural studies...read more

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Joella, her brother Peter and sister Liane, are kidnapped and transported to become pets and entertainers for an alien species, Vexa, whose lives depend on these children and their gravity-defying feats in the specially-created Galax-Arena, a hothouse of rivalry and death.

Product Description: Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and Arsenal...read more

A physician goes underground to clear his name after a pregnant mother and her child die mysteriously on his operating table, and the real murderers are out to first ruin his reputation, then take his life.

Product Description: Football is unquestionably the world’s most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football’s governing body, than to the United Nations...read more

Presents observations and reflections on soccer showing both the tragedy and the triumph of the game throughout the years

Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It’s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a ‘Research in Action’ section and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and is therefore an essential text for students on football studies courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the sociology of sport more generally.