Cricket's regional identities: the development of cricket and identity in Yorkshire and Surrey

Stone, Duncan

doi:10.1080/17430430802196470

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“…Findings suggested that both sets of northern and southern English fans could not be separated by a north-south divide. [45] The second largest proportion (14%) of fans amongst those who answered 'yes' fell into the category of suggesting the England team were representative of the nation, but not of them personally. For example, one fan clarified: 'Yes, but only slightly and certainly not personally.…”

Section: Euro 2008mentioning

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English national identity and the national football team: the view of contemporary English fans

Gibbons

2011

Soccer & Society

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The English St George Cross has recently become more prominent than the British Union Jack amongst English football fans. Some authors assume this to be evidence that a specifically English national consciousness is arising. However, the ways in which English fans describe their own national identity and their feelings towards the national football team have not been the primary focus of previous research. In order to explore this area further, online questionnaires were disseminated amongst various fan groups during the 2006 World Cup, the 2008 European Championships and the summer of 2009, gleaning a total of 1355 valid responses. Frequencies were calculated for answers to multiple-choice items and answers to open response items were categorized using a qualitative coding approach. Findings indicate that the relationship between English national identity and support for the national team is more complex than the increased display of the St George Cross suggests. Specifically English articulations of identity were not homogenous among English football fans: British, local and even European layers of identity were considered to be more important to some fans. Also, the relationship between English national identity and feeling represented by the national team was often dependent on their success. Finally, results signified a complex relationship between fans' support for their English club and their support for the England team, which was often related to club location.

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Section: Euro 2008mentioning

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English national identity and the national football team: the view of contemporary English fans

Gibbons

2011

Soccer & Society

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“…Whilst this distinctive culture united many of Yorkshire's communities, in many ways it also acted to disassociate Yorkshire from other county communities. Cricket in the north has often been characterised as a resistant format to that of the 'real' game played in the south (Russell 1996(Russell , 2004Stone 2008). Yorkshire cricket was deemed by cricket's administrators to be too competitive and overly aggressive.…”

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“…Devon, the Welsh Valleys, the Scottish highlands, Liverpool and Manchester -to name but a few -all have a very strong sense of their own identity (Allen 2008). Many people have attempted to write about Yorkshire, Yorkshire people and Yorkshire cricket (Birley 2003;Light 2009;Marqusee 1994;Russell 1996;Stone 2008;Wagg 2003/04). However, rather than undertaking empirical research, they have tended to focus on secondary evidence, which deifies already existing cultural stereotypes.…”

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“Aye, But It were Wasted on Thee”: Cricket, British Asians, Ethnic Identities, and the ‘Magical Recovery of Community’

Fletcher

2011

Sociological Research Online

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Citation:Fletcher, T (2011) "Aye, but it were wasted on thee": Cricket, British Asians, ethnic identities, and the 'magical recovery of community '. Sociological Research Online, 16 (4). DOI: https://doi.org/10. 5153/sro.2468 Link to Leeds Beckett Repository record: http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/2315/ Document Version: ArticleThe aim of the Leeds Beckett Repository is to provide open access to our research, as required by funder policies and permitted by publishers and copyright law.The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team.We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.Each thesis in the repository has been cleared where necessary by the author for third party copyright. If you would like a thesis to be removed from the repository or believe there is an issue with copyright, please contact us on openaccess@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis."Aye, but it were wasted on thee": Cricket, British Asians, ethnic identities, and the 'magical recovery of community'. AbstractPeople in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and institutionalised racism and territorial defensiveness. Drawing upon semistructured interviews conducted with amateur white and British Asian cricketers, this paper examines the construction of regional identities in Yorkshire at a time when traditional myths and invented traditions of Yorkshire and 'Yorkshireness' are being deconstructed. This is conceptualised through a reading of John Clarke's 'magical recovery of community'. Although cricket has been multiracial for decades, I argue that some people's position as insiders is more straightforward than others. I present evidence to suggest that, regardless of being committed to Yorkshire and their 'Yorkshireness', white Yorkshire people may never fully accept British Asians as 'one of us'. Ideologically and practically, white Yorkshire people are engaged in constructing British Asians as anathema to Yorkshire culture. The paper concludes by advocating that, for sports cultures to be truly egalitarian, the ideology of sport itself has to change. True equality will only ever be achieved within a de-racialised discourse that not only accepts difference, but embraces it.

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“…The imagined identities of counties such as Surrey and Yorkshire have been influenced by these differences and they have been commonly portrayed in contemporary and historical literature. 1 Although a very small number of 'gentlemen's' clubs operated in the north, the vast majority of clubs, especially those that played within leagues throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, represented their communities as a whole. 2 In the south, however, particularly after 1918, cricket clubs increasingly came to represent specific class groups rather than the communities for whom they were often named.…”

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Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

Stone

2016

Urban History

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This article examines the social, economic and political origins of what was a new, distinctly elitist, culture of ‘non-competitive’ sport, and how these values, which emerged from a small group of metropolitan elites, spread throughout the south-east of England. It argues that a long-term analysis of sport provides a valuable contextual tool for urban historians. In this case, how the gradual adoption of a distinctly ‘metropolitan’ culture throughout Surrey, and the associated changes in the social structure and purpose of cricket, may contribute towards a more nuanced assessment of that county's ‘suburbanization’, and how this region interacted with the urban core.

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Cricket's regional identities: the development of cricket and identity in Yorkshire and Surrey

Cited by 10 publications

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English national identity and the national football team: the view of contemporary English fans

English national identity and the national football team: the view of contemporary English fans

“Aye, But It were Wasted on Thee”: Cricket, British Asians, Ethnic Identities, and the ‘Magical Recovery of Community’

Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

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