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This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twentyfirstcentury. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers all ofwhom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The bookassesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of football culture andthe political and academic debates that have accompanied these changes.English football in particular it seems is fat city. The Premiership noweight years old has via satellite television become a globalised phenomenonthere are Liverpool supporters in Bangladesh Chelsea fans in subSaharanAfrica and Manchester United followers across the globe. Grounds are full. Topclass football attracts people to bars and pubs in huge numbers. Hooliganismappears a thing of the past. Everyone seems to love football andor to supporta team. The British football media are generally euphoric in their rendering ofcontemporary football culture.However the contributors to this book argue that the heavily commodified PRdriven and cartelised British football world with which so many contemporarypoliticians and other public figures rush to identify themselves has eithercreated exacerbated or continued to ignore serious problems of socialexclusion problems of class and community race and ethnicity gendersexuality and age. «
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