1st Edition
Football, Community and Sustainability
Introduction: ‘Thinking long and wide’: which communities have a future within the global game?
Chris Porter, Anthony May and Annabel Kiernan
1. One rule for one: the impact of Champions League prize money and Financial Fair Play at the bottom of the European club game
Steve Menary
2. Chao Amigos! Hello Thailand: football, migration and sustainability in Thailand
Carolina Brill and Chuenchanok Nin Siriwat
3. Football clubs as symbols of regional identities
Adriano Gómez-Bantel
4. Football and community empowerment: how FC Sankt Pauli fans organize to influence
Mick Totten
5. Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls: anatomy of an alternative sports club
Will Simpson
6. Ten years of Supporters Trust ownership at Exeter City AFC: an overview
David Treharne
7. Fighting strategic homophobia in football
Roy Krøvel
8. Sustaining health improvement activities delivered in English professional football clubs using evaluation: a short communication
Andy Pringle, Daniel Parnell, Zoe Rutherford, Jim McKenna, Stephen Zwolinsky and Jackie Hargreaves
9. Football and its communities: the celebration of Manchester United FC’s Ability Suite
Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines, Phil Downs and John Grady
Biography
Chris Porter is based at the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research explores the links between football fans, class-consciousness, neoliberal ideology and globalisation.
Anthony May is based at the School of Marketing and Management, Coventry University, UK. His research explores the relationship of sport with a range of social and political issues, including austerity, sustainability, political campaigning, as well as with other forms of culture.
Annabel Kiernan is based at the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her research interests cover public sector reform and the role of football in local service delivery and community identity.
