Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures: Slum Sport, Slum People? (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe)
General fiction, General non-fiction, Sports and games
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
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