Discourses on the Beautiful Game

Contents: Acknowledgement. 1. Introduction/Leon Grunberg. 2. English professional football and its communities/Adam Brown, Tim Crabbe and Gavin Mellor. 3. The beautiful game and the American exception/Michael Veseth. 4. Networks, power and revenue in contemporary football: an analysis of the G14/Peter Millward. 5. Football, post-colonial and post-conflict discourses in Algeria: Algerie-France, 6 October 2001, "ce n"etait pas un simple match de foot"/Mahfoud Amara. 6. From the terraces to boardrooms: reviewing theories and perspectives on Racism in football/Tim Crabbe. 7. Football Hooliganism and the modern world/H.F. Moorhouse. 8. The globalisation of \'Bad\' management practice: the three points for a win reform in football/Daniel Bloyce and Patrick Murphy. 9. In balance with this life, this death\': Mourning George Best/Alan Bairner. 10. The use of performance-enhancing drugs in European football/Dominic Malcolm and Ivan Waddington. Index.