1st Edition

Racism and English Football For Club and Country

By Daniel Burdsey Copyright 2021
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race. Racism, we were told, had disappeared from English football. It was relegated to a distant past, and displaced onto other European countries. When its appearance could not be denied, it was said to... Read more

1. Racism and English football

2. Club

3. Country

4. Playing by different rules?

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Biography

Daniel Burdsey is a Reader in the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton, UK; and an Associate Professor (Status Only) in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His previous books include British Asians and Football: Culture, Identity, Exclusion (Routledge, 2007) and Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues (Routledge, 2011).

"[This book] points to all the complex, but very necessary, challenges in football developing a response to #BlackLivesMatter. Until these are faced a truly anti-racist football will remain as far away as before last year’s explosion of black resistance."
-Mark Perryman, MorningStar Online

"This is an essential read for those interested in the social and organisational dynamics of (English, especially) football." -Mads Skauge, Nord University