Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures [electronic resource] : Slum Sport, Slum People? / by Cyprian Piskurek.

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Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures [electronic resource] : Slum Sport, Slum People? / by Cyprian Piskurek.

9783319767628
3319767623
9783319767611 (print)
3319767615
9783319767635 (print)
3319767631
9783030095765 (print)
3030095762

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (VII, 274 pages) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-76762-8 doi

GV706.5

306.48

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report' suggested a number of measures for stricter regulation of fan crowds. In consequence, stadiums in the top divisions were turned into all-seated venues and were put under CCTV surveillance. The implementation of these measures reduced violent incidents drastically, but it also led to an unparalleled increase in ticket prices, which in turn significantly altered the demographics of the crowd. This development, which also enabled football's entry into other mainstream cultural forms, changed the game decisively. Piskurek traces patterns across prose and film to detect how these fictions have responded to the changed circumstances of post-Taylor football. Lending a cultural lens to these political changes, this book is pioneering in its analysis of football fiction as a whole, offering a fresh perspective to a range of scholars and students interested in cultural studies, sociology, leisure and politics.

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