The organisation of French football today

Eastham, James

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“…The relationship between football and nationhood has received considerable attention within the social sciences. While some theorists have focused on this relationship in terms of the historical origins of football (Armstrong and Giulianotti 1998; Giulianotti 1999; Pickup 1999), others have considered the formation of national and international footballing authorities (Beck 2000; Dauncey 1999), or have considered the economic impact the sport has had upon nations (Bourdieu 1999; Eastham 1999). Of particular relevance to the present study is the strand of work emphasising the role of football in defining, promoting, challenging and resisting public expressions of national identity and pride (e.g.…”

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Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English national football support

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Lowe

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Nations and Nationalism

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The growing popularity of English national insignia in international football tournaments has been widely interpreted as evidence of the emergence of a renewed English national consciousness. However, little empirical research has considered how people in England actually understand football support in relation to national identity. Interview data collected around the time of the Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup tournaments fail to substantiate the presumption that support for the England football team maps onto claims to patriotic sentiment in any straightforward way. People with far-right political affiliations did generally use national football support to symbolise a general pride in English national identity. However, other people either claimed not to support the England national team precisely because of its associations with nationalism, or else bracketed the domain of football support from more general connotations of English patriotism.Far more important than anything that happened on the field was the sudden liberation of an English national identity. It looks as if the English are finally allowed to start loving themselves. The sting has been drawn out of the flag of St George. All the old connotations -that a red cross on a white background meant a mindset that was white, racist, boozy, xenophobic, exclusive -has gone out of the window . . . The last few months have seen an extraordinary outpouring of national feeling, . . . That simple red and white flag stands for passion, dignity, humour, tolerance, stoicism, creativity, courage and more. We are told so often that this country is not what it was, that we should all just shut up and learn to be European. But over the past two weeks we have learned what it means to be English (Daily Mirror, 24 June 2002).The relationship between football and nationhood has received considerable attention within the social sciences. While some theorists have focused on this relationship in terms of the historical origins of football (Armstrong and

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“…The case of the French professional football system, the last of the case studies, is selected because, as Eastham (Eastham, 1999: 58) claims, in terms of sport, France is the most interventionist of Western European states seeking to ensure that the “general interest of sports prevails over the multitude of private interests that traverse it”. This model of French Republican dirigisme is one which contrasts with the essentially voluntaristic nature of UK state intervention in the English context.…”

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“…This situation was transformed during the 1960s, with the decline of traditional industries, which had financed the first generation of semi professional clubs and when clubs turned professional, founder members realised that the 1901 law still provided all the necessary legal protection while allowing them to trade on behalf of the club and pay employees. Thus clubs have been able to operate as professional entities while being able also to call on public sector investment (Eastham, 1999).…”

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The governance of professional soccer: Five case studies – Algeria, China, England, France and Japan

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Henry²,

Jin³

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European Journal of Sport Science

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Although there has been a rapid growth in the globalisation of sport and its delivery to world markets, nevertheless there is a variety of models of sport-business whose characteristics are the product of local histories, local political and sporting cultures, local economic conditions and so on. This paper does not seek to deny the increasingly obvious impact of globalisation on professional sport, but rather it seeks to articulate the ways in which such global phenomena are locally mediated in professional soccer systems in five countries, to identify and to explain local responses to global pressures. The five examples include the oldest professional football system, that of England, and a second contrasting European system, France, together with three relatively recently established professional football systems in Japan a developed capitalist economy, Algeria, which is developing a post-socialist sports economy, and China which is experimenting in sport as in other areas with a 'socialist market economy'. The resultant evolution of professional sporting systems represents distinctive configurations of stakeholders in what are in effect contrasting business models, and reflects a situation of 'diminishing varieties and increasing contrasts', in contrast to the claims made by Elias in relation to global cultural phenomena.

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From elite circles to power networks: Turkish soccer clubs in a global age, 1903–2005

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2010

Soccer & Society

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The organisation of French football today

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Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English national football support

Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English national football support

The governance of professional soccer: Five case studies – Algeria, China, England, France and Japan

From elite circles to power networks: Turkish soccer clubs in a global age, 1903–2005

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