Introduction, 1
Adam Brown
Part I: Power in Football: the “people’s” game?, 9
1: FIFA versus UEFA in the struggle for the control of world football, 11
John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson, Paul Darby
2: Grey shirts to grey suits: the political economy of English football in the 1990s, 32
Simon Lee
3: United we stand: some problems with fan democracy, 50
Adam Brown
Part II: Racism in football: identity and exclusion, 69
4: Racism in football: patterns of continuity and change, 71
Les Back, Tim Crabbe, John Solomos
5: The ultràs, racism and football Culture in Italy, 88
Carlo Podaliri, Carlo Balestri
6: ‘Football’s coming home’ but whose home? And do we want it?: nation, football and the politics of exclusion, 101
Ben Carrington
7: Scottish racism, Scottish identities: the case of Partick Thistle, 124
Paul Dimeo, Gerry P. T. Finn
Part III: Football North to South: continental identities, 139
8: Football fans in Scandinavia: 1900-97, 141
9: ‘On the border’: some notes on football and national identity in Portugal, 158
João Nuno Coelho
10: National obsessions and identities in football match reports, 173
Liz Crolley, David Hand, Ralf Jeutter
Part IV: Football in Britain—the ‘national’ Sport?, 187
11: Scottish fans, Not English hooligans!: Scots, Scottishness and Scottish football, 189
Gerry P. T. Finn, Richard Giulianotti
12: ‘We shall not be moved’! Mere sport, mere songs?: a tale of Scottish football, 203
Joseph M. Bradley
13: ‘Angels’ with drunken faces?: travelling Republic of Ireland supporters and the reconstruction of Irish migrant identity in England, 219
Marcus Free
Part V: Football boundaries: regulation and the place of fans, 233
14: When the writ hits the fan: panic law and football fandom, 235
Steve Greenfiled, Guy Osborn
15: The law and hate speech: ‘Ooh Aah Cantona’ and the demonization of ‘the order’, 249
Simon Gardiner
16: Virtual fandoms: futurescapes of football, 265
John Bale
Index, 279