National Obsessions and Identities in Football Match Reports

Crolley, Elizabeth; Hand, David J.; Jeutter, Ralf

doi:10.4324/9780203028933-18

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Playing the identity card: Stereotypes in European football

2000

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The amount of space 'quality' newspapers devote to football reflects its increasing importance in European culture. European print media discourse on football does more than cover the game's technicalities, though; it also shapes its readers' awareness of national identities. It is the aim of this study to analyse football match reports and articles from Britain, Spain, France and Germany with a view to understanding the mechanisms at work in the construction of national stereotypes.The language used by these articles is varied, entertaining, highly inventive and often provocative, evoking references to warfare, politics, history, economics and popular culture. In many cases, the principal elements of the stereotypes represented by the European press are the same from country to country (English fighting spirit, Spanish toughness, French flair, German efficiency). European print media discourse on football may, therefore, be said to reinforce myths of national character and strengthen notions of collective identity associated with sport.

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2000

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Nigeria, Football, and the Return of Lord Lugard

Onwumechili

2009

International Journal of Sport Communication

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This qualitative research investigated the meaning of the European football leagues’ domination of the Nigerian football market. It finds that the media use a frame of “Nigeria as colony” to report football. In essence, the media interpret Europe as center of modern football and Nigeria as periphery. The study uses 2 methods: (a) a frame analysis of 2 daily sports newspapers, 1 national daily newspaper, and a satellite television sports channel and (b) in-depth interviews of 10 Nigerian football fans. Each complementary method helps confirm results obtained by the other. The frame analysis discovers 4 themes and the interviews found 5 related themes. Each theme logically links to the archetype frame of Nigeria as colony. The results of the study confirm valence framing, demonstrating the impact of the frame on Nigerian sports fans.

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Real Madrid and FC Barcelona: A new narrative of football rivalry in 1930s Spain

Lopez¹

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National Obsessions and Identities in Football Match Reports

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Playing the identity card: Stereotypes in European football

Playing the identity card: Stereotypes in European football

Nigeria, Football, and the Return of Lord Lugard

Real Madrid and FC Barcelona: A new narrative of football rivalry in 1930s Spain

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