[...]... particular football event to be highly racialised and divided Having looked at the role of racial identities in football, we then broaden this into continental Europe to raise important questions of national identities as mediated through football, in Part III Andersson and Radmann set the nature of football fandom in Scandinavia in its historical context, contrasting its development with that in the UK... deliberately multi-disciplinary, combining sociology, cultural and media studies, political economy, history, the study of language, law and cultural geography The publication is organised into five distinct but clearly inter-related areas of study: power in football; racism; continental football identities; football as Britain’s ‘national’ sport; and the regulation and ‘space’ for fandom In many ways these... defying the dominant English and ‘insular’ Irish definitions of their identity The final section of this collection concerns the limits which are being imposed on the expression of fans in both a practical and theoretical manner, and as such returns to the questions of control considered in Part I Greenfield and Osborn develop the increasing volume of work in the legal field regarding football and. .. contemporary fandom in all its facets, the context within which that fandom is developing and the key questions of ownership, participation, racial and national identities Fanatics! will look first at attempts to control or influence the running of the game and this is considered from the ‘top’ to the ‘bottom’ of football s hierarchy Sugden, Tomlinson and Darby outline the battle—between the South American incumbent,... its vernacular and cultural specificity Originating in one of the biggest research projects to tackle the issue, this chapter signifies a major moving forward of the debate and outlines a context in which future work will take place Podaliri and Balestri outline the birth of organised racism in Italian football as inextricably linked to the development of the ultrà in Italian fandom Arguing that the... intolerance and xenophobia exist (and are challenged) at all levels Such a context is uniquely interesting and one in which Fanatics! has been written and compiled It aims to analyse not only the processes and power-broking in motion but the complex and shifting identities associated with football and the impact of developments on fans Given the breadth of change in the game and the diverse concerns it contains,... role in football She has produced several articles on various aspects of football in Spain, Argentina and England and is co-author, with Vic Duke, of Football, Nationality and the State (Addison Wesley Longman 1996) She suffers from an addiction to Liverpool FC and supports them home and away Paul Darby has been researching into FIFA and its relationship with African football for his doctoral project in. .. as the preceding chapter, in the usefulness of the law in dealing with ‘hate speech’ and racially motivated crimes Bale’s concluding piece continues his pioneering of the field of cultural geography by considering the dual roles of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in developing a geographical theory of football In this he argues that football ought to be placeless: that in the interests of ‘fair play’ and ‘achievement’,... law into football have all raised questions about the position of the game in society, and especially the nature of contemporary football fandom Crucially, these changes have challenged football and football fandom to meet its own rhetoric about being a popular participatory culture, about notions of common ownership of the game, about football s position in, and reflection of, national, regional and. .. as Baddiel and Skinner join the England striker Teddy Sheringham and the lead singer of the Lightning Seeds, Ian Broudie, on the front cover of the indie music magazine New Musical Express before Euro 96 111 6.3 The Sunday Times Magazine Action Replay: The Beatles and Oasis, Charlton and Gascoigne, Wilson and Blair—are the sixties back? 116 8.1 A Danish ‘Fast Painter’ in action—denigrating the Swedes— . religious and club identities among fans in England, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Scandinavia. Finally, the contributors examine the increasing role. Cataloguing in Publication Data Fanatics: power, identity, and fandom in football/ [edited by] Adam Brown. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.