The emergence of the sporting director role in football and the potential of social network theory in future research

Parnell, Daniel; Widdop, Paul; Groom, Ryan; Bond, Alexander John

doi:10.1080/23750472.2018.1577587

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“…That is, football is deeply embedded in interactional processes and warrants further research through the lens of Worlds. 6 In this respect, it means studying the social organization of the production of football. Football is a collaborative effort which involves a complex division of labour and organizational effort, and that it should be treated as a Football World, in the Beckerian tradition.…”

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“…For example, English football authorities acted ahead of the United Kingdom (UK) Government to postpone football (i.e., mass gatherings) potentially due to its European connections through competitions and responses to the virus elsewhere (i.e., lockdown in Italy). 16 This raises areas that require further examination related to macro level governance, leadership, stakeholders, relationships, influence and power.…”

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Football Worlds: business and networks during COVID-19

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The structure of football can also be conceived as a form of ecosystem, or even a social world, constructed through a network of individuals, within a division of labour, that interact under a set of specific conventions. In this commentary we describe that socially constructed world-Football World. The nature of this structural world makes network theory an appealing framework to explore processes of the football ecosystem during COVID-19. While we focus on the English Premier League, notably this league is embedded within a European and international marketplace it offers relevance for the broader global football ecosystem. We proceed to explore this dynamic Football World by considering how the different collective forms-specifically fans, players and clubs-have been affected by COVID-19. We comment on the potential implications for the connective fabric of the broader network and what these observations mean for potential future research.

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“…Therefore, to understand these prosumer networks further, we must adopt a network perspective which is engrained within economic sociology. Granovetter's (1985) theory of embeddedness stipulates that economic behavior is embedded structurally and relationally in relationships throughout society, especially sports and leisure (Bond et al, 2018(Bond et al, , 2019Parnell et al, 2018). Hence, economic behavior, such as producing and consuming user-generated content concerning #ToiletRollChallange, is structured and influenced by social (media) world.…”

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Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and COVID-19

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Following advances in information technology and the rise of social media, prosumptiona model of simultaneous production and consumption of the commodityhas become a significant focus in many industries and for academic study. Prosumption represents a new message creation and delivery paradigm, where anyone can seamlessly shift from consumer to contributor, to creator. Central to this is the idea of creating 'use-value' and re-orientating 'exchange value'. Perhaps an overlooked facet, but one deeply engrained in its manifestation is that prosumption is inherently relational, involving microinteraction between consumer and producer. The recent global COVID-19 pandemic, it too being relational in its transmission, has had a paralysing effect on global leisure activities with households and sports organisations experiencing some form of state-enforced residential lockdown. Using social network analysis, this commentary examines the network structure of a prosumed leisure activity during societal lockdown and its implications for the leisure industries.

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“…This article is of a conceptual nature and utilizes insights from the existing literatures. The trends it seeks to analyse have paralleled with the development from the early 1990s when the EPL was formed (in 1992) (Parnell et al 2018). Ultimately, the shifts to consumption practices and technologies occur continually.…”

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The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League

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2021

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This article examines how spaces of fandom in the English Premier League (EPL) have developed over the last decade in light of globalization processes and technological advancements. This conceptual paper thus utilizes the existing literature and frames these insights to outline emerging 'offline' and 'online' spaces of fandom in the English football's top-tier. It is argued that these under-explored spaces have been enacted by broader, powerful processes and the two spaces -the fan zone ('offline' space) and the independent Fan TV ('online') do now comprise two important spaces that add vibrancy, meaning and socio-cultural elements to the practice of 'being' a fan. Crucially, the article ties into and extend current debates around the technology-fandom pair. It sustains that, in order to understand contemporary fan culture in the EPL, these spaces must, increasingly, be considered as sites for collective and individual identification, the performance of fandom and social interaction. 'offline' and 'online' spaces that both remain vital for fans and, subsequently, for understanding fan cultures (

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The emergence of the sporting director role in football and the potential of social network theory in future research

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Football Worlds: business and networks during COVID-19

Football Worlds: business and networks during COVID-19

Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and COVID-19

The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League

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