1st Edition
Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915 (revised edition)
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
A note on the text
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT
THE CLUBS
AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS
THE PLAYERS
THE CROWD
DRINK, GAMBLING AND THE SPORTING PRESS
THE GAME
FOOTBALL AND THE WORKERS
IN CONCLUSION
Select bibliography
Index
Biography
Tony Mason is the author of Sport in Britain (1998); Passion of the People? Football in South America (1995); and co-author of Sport in Britain 1945–2000 (2000) and Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880–1960 (2011). He has taught at Nottingham, Edinburgh, Hull, Warwick and De Montfort Universities in the United Kingdom.
Dilwyn Porter is Honorary Professor of Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University and Visiting Professor of Modern History at Newman University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
