[...]... it was also the case the people who helped to popularise them were from the same social classes as the judges, 3 From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society and the Law parliamentarians and landowners and shared the same ethos, so far as the role of sport in society was concerned Elias and Dunning (1986, p 151) counselled against the tendency to see every development that occurred in the 19th century... affiliated to the Football Association (FA), it is not bound by the FA’s restrictions on the payment of dividends Consequently, it can make payments to its shareholders The company owns the football club, Manchester United Ltd, which is affiliated to the FA and which, accordingly, is not able to pay a dividend xxiii From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society and the Law At the time of the 1991 flotation, the. .. fights to bind the lower orders into society, others attempted to do the same by extending these ideals of respectable masculinity to the working classes They did so through the medium of other sports and pastimes, such as track and field athletics events, Highland Games and their English equivalents (Birley, 1993, p 240) In doing so, they encountered the antipathy of the poor, ill-educated and aggressive.. .From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society and the Law A manor maketh man The resistible rise of Harry the Dog ‘Let’s go for a walk round’ Sentencing the ‘hooligan’ Legislative responses to ‘football hooliganism’ Conclusion 5 CROWD CONTROL OR CUSTOMER CARE? Introduction Secrets and lies Stadium safety a decade after Hillsborough From segregation to surveillance The role of the safety officer... million to the television companies But, prior to the formation of the Premier League in 1992, no more than 20 live League games were broadcast each season – the clubs were still fearful that attendances would suffer if too many live games were shown, although there was no evidence that this was the case The current deal between the Premier League and the television xxv From Boot Money to Bosman: Football,. .. ‘suit the cheapest seats to the pockets of those presently paying to stand’ (Taylor Report, 1990, para 72) He cited the £6 and £4 then paid at Glasgow Rangers’ Ibrox stadium as a reasonable price for the cheapest seats But the clubs had always made money from committed fans, who would continue to turn up and pay up in sufficient numbers regardless of the admission fee, and they were too soft a target to. .. rely on the notion of immemorial custom – in theory, a custom ‘which predates the accession of Richard I in 1189’ and which conjures up pastoral visions of the traditional village green with its images of maypole dancing, cricket and warm beer’ Similarly, applications under head (a) could include land ‘which was allotted for exercise and recreation by Act of 1 From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society. .. Rangers, Leeds United and a host of other top clubs This media feeding frenzy, the breast beating over ‘hooliganism’ and drug use and UEFA’s latest attempts to wheedle their way out of the Bosman ruling ensure that barely a week passes without the breaking of a high profile football story in which a significant legal issue arises ‘Football and the law will dwarf any other ‘sports law story – no mean feat... workplace concerns Blowing the whistle The US experience US employers’ liability: the new playing field Learning from the US experience Sexual abuse in sport The Lyme Bay tragedy Conclusion and recommendations xi 156 160 166 170 173 173 174 178 181 182 185 187 187 188 191 194 196 200 202 203 207 207 208 209 211 213 214 215 217 219 From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society and the Law APPENDIX 1 PROFESSIONAL... United lost, there is little doubt that Ferguson would have been sacked The rest, Brian, is history In 1991/92, United won the championship of the old First Division and, in the first eight years of the Premiership’s existence, they won that title on six occasions During the 1990s, they won the FA Cup four times and, on the last occasion, in 1998/99, their success represented the second leg of their hat-trick . FROM BOOT MONEY TO BOSMAN: FOOTBALL, SOCIETY AND THE LAW Cavendish Publishing Limited C P Cavendish Publishing Limited C P London • Sydney FROM BOOT. gendered sense of space 62 From Boot Money to Bosman: Football, Society and the Law x A manor maketh man 64 The resistible rise of Harry the Dog 67 ‘Let’s go