It can be difficult, emotional and expensive following a football team. A sports sociologist explains why it’s worth it.
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It’s no wonder so many referees are quitting their jobs.
Football is supposed to be the ‘people’s game’, but the English Premier League is easier and cheaper to follow if you are a fan of a club based in London or the prosperous southeast.
A series of attacks by fans on players recently raised the spectre of a return to the bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s.
It can be tough at the top for football managers.
Football plays an important role in American culture. Experts point out some ethical questions you might consider asking this season.
Many Americans seem to like seeing communist ideas in action, but have a visceral reaction to the word ‘communism.’ Might it be time to refresh an old ideology with a new set of terms?
There is still a place in a sport that remains connected to communities.
Every England fan in Moscow knows that that football is ‘coming home’, but can England really claim to be where the world’s most popular sport rests its head?
Some on the left view sport as a distraction. But life is a struggle. And there shouldn’t be anything wrong with finding something to celebrate.
Five questions about World Cup fandom, answered by psychology.
Chinese football fans have gone to Russia in huge numbers – to support other nations.
The Russian people need to show the world a different side to the scandal-struck country when the World Cup kicks off.
The Liverpool FC star striker has inspired a generation of young Egyptians.
What happened after Brandin Cooks took a massive blow during Super Bowl LII helps explain why NFL’s concussion crisis isn’t killing the sport’s popularity.
Fan parks will be a key tool at Russia’s World Cup next year.
European football matches allow African fans to partake in the aspirational dreams exported worldwide by the Premier League or the Champions League.
More and more, the culture of elite, professional footy is characterised by commercialisation and corporatisation.
Ten months after guiding outsiders Leicester to the Premier League title – arguably the greatest shock in the history of the English game – the club’s manager has been unceremoniously sacked.
Can social media and a high profile clash with Manchester United help disgruntled Blackburn Rovers fans lodge a protest that will resonate in India where the club’s unpopular owners reside?
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Director of the Centre for Sports Economics and Law, University College Cork
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Reader in the Department of People and Performance, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor in Data Science and Health Services Research, University of Manchester
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Professor of Media and Journalism, University of Huddersfield
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Professor and Chair of Kinesiology and Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Head of Department; Finance, Accounting & Business Systems, Sheffield Hallam University
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Principal Lecturer in Sport Finance, Sheffield Hallam University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Utrecht University
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Doctoral student in Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University
