Introduction: A long ball game
1. Before Fever Pitch: A true history of football fiction
2. Current form: The contemporary landscape of football fiction
3. Line-Markings: The topography of football fiction
4. ‘Rules for the simplest game’: Conventions of the football fiction genre
5. Two halves: Differentiation between adult and young adult football fiction
"Play the whistle!": A conclusion of sorts
Appendix: They think it’s all oeuvre… A catalogue of football fiction
Biography
Lee McGowan is Researcher at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Besides critical football studies in women’s football and football fiction, his research focuses on generative narratives and community engagement. He is currently researching the social history of Australian women’s football.
"a pioneering work that should be considered an initial step in the exploration of a relatively unknown landscape for the sports historian." – Daniel Alsarve, Örebro University, idrottsforum.org
