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

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018 Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became sociali

Football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe has long functioned as a carrier of the three “non-normal” socio-political drivers that were effective below

This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents. It provides a detailed p

From its working-class roots to commercialisation and resistance to it - this is football history for the politically conscious fan. Football is a multi-billion