1st Edition
Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915 (revised edition)
Association football, as it developed rapidly in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, both reflected British society and helped to reshape it. In this newly released edition of Tony Mason’s essential account of the game’s rise, focusing on issues such as the amateur–professional divide, social class and mass spectatorship are seen as fundamental to our understanding of what is now a global phenomenon. Dilwyn Porter supplements this classic text with a brand new introduction.
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.
