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    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football.The year 1992 has become a key year in the development of football. Not only was the Premier League formed in this year, but the Champions League was also launched. Both were designed to placate the larger clubs and ... Read more

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  • Atlas of the Electrical Generators of Sleep

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  • The Ultras

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    Edited by Mark Doidge, Martin Lieser ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Over the last 50 years, the ultras have become the most widespread, outspoken and spectacular form of football fandom across the globe. Whilst the ultras phenomenon began in Italy, then spread across Southern Europe into Northern Europe, it is now the dominant style of fandom in North Africa, South East Asia and East Asia and is spreading into North America and Australia. This spectacular style of ... Read more

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  • Transforming Sport

    Knowledges, Practices, Structures

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to merely advocate for change. Rather, they insist that scholars need to take an active political stance when ... Read more

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  • Ultras

    The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom

    Series series Manchester University Press
    Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing complex choreography, chants, banners and pyrotechnics, ultras represent a highly organised style of fandom that has an increasing global reach and visibility. Over the last fifty years, ultras fandom has spread from Southern Europe across North Africa to Northern and ... Read more

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  • The Short Guide to Sociology

    Series series Short Guides
    This illuminating book offers a fresh and contemporary guide to the field of sociology. By demonstrating the versatility of the sociological imagination, the authors reveal the ways in which thinking sociologically can help us to understand the personal, social and structural changes going on in the world around us.Using real world case studies, the book addresses key sociological themes such as:· ... Read more

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  • Football Italia

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    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Football has undergone a period of transformation over the last thirty years. Despite these global processes, different national leagues have adapted in different ways. After an initial period of success directly after Italia '90, Italian football has gone through a ... Read more

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    This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football fandom across Europe and the UK. Through a range of case studies, the authors address pertinent themes in football fandom, including anti-discrimination, ‘home,’ ticketing, name changes, ‘ownership,’ and broader leftist politics. Each of these case studies engages with the theoretical ... Read more

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