The People's Game. The history of football revisited

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First published [with footnotes] 1978 and subsequently extensively rewritten. An account by a scholar who attempts to write for both a scholarly and broader readership. Chronicles the history of football, largely in the UK, in terms of its growth, structure, administration, commercialisation, professionalism, spectators, attendances, rules and regulations, etc, in a broad chronological fashion and focusing especially on social and cultural issues. Sections include: 'Pre-industrial football', 'Public schools and football'; 'Rise of working class football'; 'Football to 1914'; 'Britain's most endurable export'; 'The insular game, 1915-38'; 'Leisure in austerity, 1939-52'; 'Disasters and renewal'