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Football in Neo-Liberal Times ThisbookoffersanoriginalMarxistcritiqueoftheEuropeanfootballbusiness. ItarguesthattheMarxistaccountofthedifferencebetweenprofitsandsurplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Analysis focuses on the nature of modern professional football; the attempts made, via government agency and football clubs,tocorralfansintoevergreateridentificationwithbusinesslogicaimedat breakingtraditionalsocialrelations;andanumberofcasestudiesacrossEurope, highlighting how some fans are attempting to mount a counter-ideological responsetotheassaultofneo-liberalismonthegame. Peter Kennedy lectures in the Sociology of Sport and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. His most recent published work is in applying socio- logical theories to understanding health and medicine, and football supporter responses to commercialisation. David Kennedy is a freelance researcher. His most recent publishedwork is in the area offootball supporters and governance of professional football clubs. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society 1 Sport, Masculinities and the Body 9 Critical Readings in Ian Wellard Bodybuilding Edited by Adam Locks and 2 India and the Olympics Niall Richardson Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta 10 The Cultural Politics of 3 Social Capital and Sport Post-9/11 American Sport Governance in Europe Power, Pedagogy and the Popular Edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Michael Silk Barrie Houlihan and Fabien Ohl 11 Ultimate Fighting and 4 Theology, Ethics and Embodiment Transcendence in Sports Violence, Gender and Mixed Edited by Jim Parry, Mark Nesti Martial Arts and Nick Watson Dale C. 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Duncan Edited by Heather Piper 45 Inclusion and Exclusion in 36 Sport, Racism and Social Media Competitive Sport Neil Farrington, Lee Hall, Daniel Socio-Legal and Regulatory Kilvington, John Price and Perspectives Amir Saeed Seema Patel 37 Football and Migration 46 Asia and the Future Perspectives, Places, Players of Football Edited by Richard Elliott and The Role of the Asian John Harris Football Confederation Ben Weinberg 38 Health and Elite Sport Is High Performance Sport a 47 Football and Accelerated Healthy Pursuit? Culture Edited by Joe Baker, Parissa Safai This Modern Sporting Life and Jessica Fraser-Thomas Steve Redhead 39 Asian American Athletes in Sport 48 Researching Embodied Sport and Society Exploring movement cultures Edited by C. Richard King Edited by Ian Wellard 40 Pierre Bourdieu and Physical 49 Female Fans of the NFL Culture Taking Their Place in the Stands Edited by lisahunter, Wayne Smith Anne Cunningham Osborne and and elke emerald Danielle Sarver Coombs 41 Reframing Disability? 50 Sport in Islam and in Muslim Media, (Dis)Empowerment, and Communities Voice in the 2012 Paralympics Edited by Alberto Testa and Edited by Daniel Jackson, Caroline Mahfoud Amara E. M. Hodges, Mike Molesworth and Richard Scullion 51 Endurance Running A Socio-Cultural Examination 42 Sport and the Social Significance Edited by William Bridel, Pirkko of Pleasure Markula and Jim Denison Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart and Jayne Caudwell 52 Mega Events and Globalization Capital and Spectacle in a 43 A Sociology of Football in a Changing World Order Global Context Edited by Richard Gruneau and Jamie Cleland John Horne 53 Beyond Sport for Development 58 Football in Neo-Liberal Times and Peace A Marxist Perspective on the Transnational Perspectives on European Football Industry Theory, Policy and Practice Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy Edited by Lyndsay Hayhurst, Tess Kay and Megan Chawansky 59 British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry 54 Ethics and Governance in Sport Daniel Kilvington The future of sport imagined Edited by Yves Vanden Auweele, 60 Sport and Alcohol Elaine Cook and Jim Parry An ethical perspective Carwyn R. Jones 55 Skateboarding Subcultures, Sites and Shifts 61 Designing the Olympics Edited by Kara-Jane Lombard Representation, Participation, Contestation 56 Femininity, Feminism and Jilly Traganou Recreational Pole Dancing Kerry Griffiths 62 Families, Young People, Physical Activity and Health 57 The War on Drugs in Sport Critical Perspectives Moral Panics and Organizational Edited by Symeon Dagkas and Legitimacy Lisette Burrows Vanessa McDermott This page intentionally left blank Football in Neo-Liberal Times A Marxist perspective on the European football industry Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy Add AAddddAAdddAddd AddAddAdd Add Firstpublished2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2016PeterKennedyandDavidKennedy TherightofPeterKennedyandDavidKennedytobeidentifiedasauthorof thisworkhasbeenassertedbytheminaccordancewithsections77and78 oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Names:Kennedy,Peter(Sociologist)|Kennedy,David,1961- Title:Footballinneo-liberalTimes:aMarxistperspectiveontheEuropean footballindustry/PeterKennedyandDavidKennedy. Description:MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon;NewYork,NY:Routledge, 2016. Identifiers:LCCN2015031285|ISBN9781138826519(hardback)| ISBN9781315739281(e-book) Subjects:LCSH:Soccer--Economicaspects--Europe|Soccer teams--Europe--Finance.|Soccer--Socialaspects--Europe.|Neoliberalism. |Marxianeconomics. Classification:LCCGV943.3.K462016|DDC796.334094--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2015031285 ISBN:978-1-138-82651-9(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-73928-1(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks Contents List of illustrations x Introduction 1 1 The commercialisation of football 17 2 Marxist political economy of the football industry 38 3 Supporters Direct Europe: the ‘recolonisation’ offootball fandom 63 4 Europe’s stadium revolution 84 5 Europe’s Ultra football supporters movement 107 6 Grassroots football, autonomous activity and the forging of new social relationships 133 Concluding thoughts 151 Index 157
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