politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU /
by Gary Armstrong and Jon P. Mitchell.
New York :
Routledge,
2008.
1 online resource (1 volume)
Routledge critical studies in sport
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Team selection : producing the nation -- New tactics : producing difference -- Football and politics : traditions and modernities -- Playing to the big men : patronage and party -- Professions of faith : footballing modernities -- The bigger they come : the price of football -- All the president's men : follow the money -- Getting into Europe : global flows of talent -- Foreign fan clubs : the global in the local epilogue.
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'Global and Local Football' explores the transformation of football as a popular cultural form by examining its development in one place, the Mediterranean island of Malta.