Review Essay: Tackling a Nation's Football History

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Notes

[1] Inglis, The Football Grounds of Britain; Lister, The Football Programme; Stanley et al., Match Day; Jovanovic, Swap Yer; McArthur and Kemp, Elegance Borne of Brutality; Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid; Thornton, Casuals.

[2] Hesse-Lichtenberger, Tor!

[3] Tomlinson and Young, German Football.

[4] Ball, Morbo.

[5] See Ball, White Storm; see also Burns, Barca.

[6] Foot, Calcio.

[7] In 2006, Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were demoted and banned from European competition; other clubs were deducted points.

[8] See Martin, Football and Fascism.

[9] Wangerin, Soccer in a Football World. See also Newsham, Once in a Lifetime; Tossell, Playing for Uncle Sam.

[10] Goldblatt, The Ball is Round.

[11] Bellos, Futebol.

[12] Wilson, Behind the Curtain.

[13] Bennetts, Football Dynamo.

[14] Freeman, Baghdad FC.

[15] See also Montague, When Friday Comes.

[16] Simmons, Bamboo Goalposts.

[17] Moffett, Japanese Rules.

[18] Ricci, Elephant, Lions and Eagles.

[19] Academic researchers appear to have been relatively successful in locating material. For example see Alegi, Laduma; Darby, Africa, Football and FIFA; Giulianotti and Armstrong, Football in Africa.

[20] Samuel, Theatres of Memory, vol II. See also Burke, What is Cultural History?

[21] Champion, ‘Seeing the Past’; Marwick, The New Nature of History; Jordanova, History in Practice.

[22] Burke, What is Cultural History?