Attribution of Failure: A German Soccer Story

Stiehler, Hans-Joerg; Marr, Mirko

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“…This involved a mixture of excuse and justification by displacing both incipient blame and the locus of the problem away from the competitors and onto an anonymous audience or public. This confirms Stiehler and Marr's (2002) finding that proximity to failing performances is associated with a greater propensity to externalize blame, but it also suggests that blame displacement may also be bound up with an attempt to displace and relocate the problem, at least early on in the development of disappointment when the situation of uncertainty created by unexpected outcomes remains semantically fluid.…”

Section: Disappointment and Narrative Structuresupporting

confidence: 83%

The Disappointment Games

Knight

MacNeill

Donnelly

2005

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article provides a comparative analysis of news narratives of 'disappointment' in Canada and New Zealand in response to the 2000 Olympics. The theoretical framework draws on Luhmann's distinction between cognitive and normative orientations to expectations, contingency, and disappointment. The analysis examines how disappointment was thematized similarly as a decline in relation to past performance, but explained somewhat differently in the two countries. In New Zealand, disappointment was explained in more normatively inflected terms. Although various causal factors were mentioned, the explanatory frame was dominated by claims that athletes lacked a competitive attitude and the 'will to win', and this was generalized to New Zealand society and the educational system in particular as indicative of a broader loss of moral values. The Canadian response, on the other hand, was framed in more cognitively oriented terms. Athlete blaming was quickly dismissed as misplaced, and attention was directed to the lack of government funding and organizational problems in the 'sport system' as the principal reasons for disappointing results. In both cases, however, these explanations of disappointment were not fully exclusive of one another; each continued to contain subsidiary elements of the other, which indicates how the normative and cognitive remain mutually implicated. Key words • blame • cognitive orientations • expectations and disappointment • narrative framing • normative orientations • nostalgiaTowards the end of the first week of the 2000 Summer Olympics failure and disappointment began to emerge in both Canadian and New Zealand press coverage as the overarching theme characterizing each country's performance. Although this theme emerged on the basis of failing performances in certain specific sports and contests, the sense of disappointment was eventually generalized to the two countries' Olympic athletes and the countries themselves as a whole. By the end of the Games neither country had performed as well in terms of the quantity and

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Section: Disappointment and Narrative Structuresupporting

confidence: 83%

The Disappointment Games

Knight

MacNeill

Donnelly

2005

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Host countries can increase their media visibility internationally (Ritchie and Smith, 1991), improve their image (Rivenburgh, 1992), or create new ideas about the country and its society (Hede, 2005) by hosting mega-sporting events. In addition to special reports about the host city or nation that mostly give favourable insight into, for instance, the cultural traditions, landscape and tourist attractions (Stiehler and Marr, 2003), there is a risk that the media will also cover critical issues. Thus, the host country has only limited control over which images and reports are distributed by the foreign media (Giffard and Rivenburgh, 2000: 10).…”

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“…Although coverage of the athletes and competitions takes centre stage during mega-sporting events, the host country also comes into focus (Panagiotopoulou, 2011; Roche, 1994; Zeng et al, 2011). Television stations that broadcast the games produce special reports about the host town or nation that provide information about, for instance, cultural traditions and sights or the teams’ leisure activities (Stiehler and Marr, 2003: 142). These productions are shown in the pre-match coverage and give insight into the happenings outside the stadiums (Stiehler and Marr, 2003: 142).…”

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“…Television stations that broadcast the games produce special reports about the host town or nation that provide information about, for instance, cultural traditions and sights or the teams’ leisure activities (Stiehler and Marr, 2003: 142). These productions are shown in the pre-match coverage and give insight into the happenings outside the stadiums (Stiehler and Marr, 2003: 142). Through numerous telecasts providing this kind of background information beyond sports-related issues, the television viewer learns about the landscape, tourist attractions, culture and people of the host country (Hede, 2005: 190).…”

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“…This is especially the case if the audience has little prior knowledge and no personal experience of the host. Because of the omnipresence of sporting event coverage during major tournaments (Billings, 2008; Haynes and Boyle, 2017), it is also probable that people who are less interested in sports media will also follow the spectacle to a certain extent, receiving impressions about the host country; thus, the reach of televised mega-sporting events is enormous (Hede, 2005; Rivenburgh, 1992; Stiehler and Marr, 2003; Wenner and Billings, 2017).…”

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