A People's History of Football

Höfundur: Mickaël Correia (Útgáfa: 1)
A People's History of Football

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‘A fascinating journey through the game’s history [as] a vehicle of change’ Shaka Hislop, former footballer, anti-racist educator and broadcaster ‘Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that can change minds and even topple governments’ Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, The Nation ‘An essential history of [the] fans, players and teams that built the game and harnessed it as a force for good’ Flo Lloyd-Hughes, sportswriter and broadcaster ‘An essential read for football fans everywhere’ Juliet Jacques, writer, filmmaker and journalist Football is so much more than the billionaire owners and eye-watering signing fees that dominate the headlines.

Look beyond the Premiership and the World Cup, the sublime brilliance of Messi and Mbappé, and you’ll find a story unparalleled in the world of sport. From England, France and Germany to Palestine, South Africa and Brazil, A People’s History of Football reveals how the ‘beautiful game’ has been a powerful instrument of emancipation for workers, feminists, anti-colonialist activists, young people and protesters around the world.

Countering the clichés about football fans, Mickaël Correia dives into football countercultures born after the Second World War, from English hooligans to the ultras who played a central role in the ‘Arab Spring’. And with chapters on anti-fascism, the women’s game, and the rise in community-owned clubs, Correia reminds us that football can be a powerful social and political force – as generous as it is subversive.

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Útgefandi
Pluto Press
ISBN
9780745346878
Print ISBN
9780745346861
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Mickaël Correia
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2023-10-20
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of plates
  • Introduction
  • The other face of football
  • Social football club
  • Part I Defend: Working class resistance to the bourgeois order
  • 1. Kicking off – Riotous balls and social control
  • Political violence and popular justice
  • The soule of France
  • Football under enclosure
  • 2. Normalising bodies, shaping minds – The birth of an industrial sport
  • Shaping gentlemen
  • ‘Well-oiled machines’
  • 3. The people’s game – Football as a cultural trait of the working class
  • Taking ‘first place in the people’s hearts’
  • Decisive pass
  • ‘The Outcasts FC’
  • Football Railway Company
  • 4. The munitionnettes – The saga of the first women football players in Britain
  • Under the yoke of male domination
  • From the assembly lines to the green pitches
  • ‘Much better hitters’
  • A return to the patriarchal order
  • 5. Class against class – Working-class football in France, an extension of the field of struggle
  • Social phobia, martial values
  • Play more to work more
  • A new pitch for the struggle?
  • Ball at the feet, fist raised
  • Towards an anti-fascist football
  • Part II Attack: Assault on dictatorships
  • 6. ‘A small way of saying “no”’ – Italy, the USSR, Spain: stadiums under totalitarian regimes
  • Black shirts and blue jerseys
  • Between sporting spectacle and fascist spectacle
  • An indomitable Soviet football
  • ‘Down with the cops!’
  • Realpolitik
  • The Camp Nou, a bastion of anti-Franco resistance
  • 7. Ball at the feet against the iron fist – Football’s resistance to Nazi domination
  • A new football for a New Germany
  • A grain of sand in the propaganda machine
  • A paper man facing the iron regime
  • The ‘Match of Death’
  • Resistance in troubled waters
  • Clandestine football, weapons in hand
  • 8. ‘Corinthian democracy’ – Football and self-organisation against the Brazilian dictatorship
  • Breaking with the established order
  • Anti-authoritarian jersey
  • Outflanking the military junta
  • 9. On the front line, Tahrir Square – Ultras Ahlawy fans at the heart of the 2011 revolution in Egypt
  • From anti-colonialism to guardianship
  • An autonomous youth
  • Everyone to Tahrir!
  • ‘Oh, Council of Bastards’
  • Lost causes
  • Part III Dribble: Outmanoeuvring colonialism
  • 10. The Algerian Independence Eleven – A liberation struggle in football boots
  • Football and national liberation
  • The great escape
  • Football Fellaghas
  • 11. When Palestine occupies the pitch – Football as a political weapon in the hands of the Palestinians
  • Restrictions on movement
  • The obstacle course
  • A contested pitch
  • Anti-apartheid red card
  • Gazan football from the sidelines
  • 12. Dribbling the ball, a decolonial art – Afro-Brazilian identities and indigenous resistance in football
  • ‘Something like dancing’
  • Dribbler Social Club
  • The Amerindian gap
  • Zapatista footballs and indigenous rebellion
  • 13. Sending colonialism off – Football and emancipation struggles in sub-Saharan Africa
  • The club, a hotbed of protest
  • Anti-colonial pressure
  • Township football against Afrikaner soccer
  • Part IV Support: Collective passions and popular cultures
  • 14. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ – Hooliganism and subcultures in British stands
  • A respectable public
  • A crowd to overthrow the world
  • The English disease
  • The Heysel turning point
  • Gentrify to pacify
  • 15. The twelfth man – The Italian ultras movement: from political militancy to supporter autonomy
  • From spectator to supporter
  • Left turn
  • Calcio dell’arte
  • Police everywhere, freedom nowhere
  • 16. ‘God and the devil’ – Maradona, between popular passion and fan cult
  • The criollo agitator
  • Footballing divinity
  • Saint Maradona
  • 17. ‘We are lovers, not fighters’ – Istanbul’s ultras and Turkish power
  • From the stadiums to Taksim Square
  • Football under Erdoğan’s thumb
  • Social cohesion vs. martial divide
  • Part V Outflank: Facing the football industry: fight and reinvent
  • 18. Football for footballers! – From May ’68 to the fans’ revolt
  • ‘The players are slaves’
  • Occupy Iéna
  • Beneath the turf, the beach?
  • Playing without barriers
  • 19. Tackling sexism – Women’s football against the French sporting patriarchy
  • A breath of emancipation
  • Women’s football turns male
  • Our desires cause disorder
  • Institutional abuse
  • A crumbling bastion
  • 20. ‘Here it’s about punk football’ – Fan-owned clubs in England
  • In fans we trust
  • Taking stock of a different football
  • ‘Our club, our rules’
  • 21. Playing on the left wing – Hamburg’s FC Sankt Pauli or the pirates of the football business
  • Red-light district and Autonomen activists
  • The pirates of the league
  • Countering the commercial world
  • 22. Wild balls, balls on the margins – Street football wrong-foots the institutional game
  • Senegal: football at the heart of the neighbourhood
  • Futebol without pitches or boundaries
  • Inner-city football: playing to survive
  • The dummies of the football business
  • Postscript to the English edition
  • Endnotes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Picture Section