Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures Slum Sport, Slum People? /

• Main Author: Piskurek, Cyprian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Fiction.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Culture.

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'...

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.