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Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold Its Soul by Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner (Paperback, 2011)

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On August 15th 1992, the Premier League kicked off for the very first time to the sound of money. That same season, a new kind of branded commercialism descended across the continent as the European Cup was re-launched as the Champions League. In 1994, the game's oldest trophy, the FA Cup, would become the last of English football's major competitions to fall to commercial sponsors. The early 1990s mark the moment at which the beautiful game, the sport of the common man, wound up on a market stall, complete with price tag. Of course the game needed to change - terraces had become ugly, dangerous places, blighted with racism and afflicted with the tragedies of Hillsborough and Heysel; on the mud-patches that passed for pitches, tackles were brutal, bone-crunching, and very much from behind. But rather than righting wrongs, pockets were lined as the legacy of football was cashed in. Rob Smyth and Georgina Turner explore the fan's-eye view of 21st-century football, a game that can be about breathtaking style, but very little substance; a grossly inflated memory of its former self where Football's Soul (TM) is an idea to be traded, not treasured.' Jumpers for Goalposts' gives the facts, figures, wit and insight that proves that in the game of the people, for the people, the fans do know best and that to recover its soul, the beautiful game has to rediscover its roots.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Elliott & Thompson The Limited
ISBN-13
9781907642227
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109203860

Product Key Features

Author
Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner
Publication Name
Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold Its Soul
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
272g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner
Genre
Sports
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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