Tag: Steve Menary

Jeffrey W. Kassing’s and Sangmi Lee’s edited collection Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game (Routledge) examines football (soccer) through the lens of cross-disciplinary diaspora studies. Our reviewer, Norwegian sport sociology professor Hans K. Hognestad, finds that the collection with its wide span of empirical studies of diaspora communities in different corners of the world, negotiating identities through football, is welcome and, arguably, overdue.

Preventing match-fixing through better governance and stopping vulnerable games getting on betting markets was covered at a conference at the headquarters of international players union FIFPRO in Amsterdam. The event, which marked the end of a three year-Erasmus+ project looking at fixing in club friendlies, was attended by 90 people including more than 50 people in person. Steve Menary, who has been running the project, reports.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ’The social perception of the Colombian National Women’s Football Team towards local media by Daniela Santos Velasco, Santiago Restrepo Chavarro & Laura Camila Sarmiento Marulanda.

A FIFA Research Scholarship allowed Steve Menary to conduct the study that he presents in his latest book, A Friendly Business? A critical evaluation of the globalisation and commercialisation of the preseason friendly (Editions CIES). Jørn Hansen has read an important and interesting contribution to an under-researched area that he strongly recommends.

Soccer and Society is the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives.q

Arve Hjelseth Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, NTNU, TrondheimSteve Menary GB United: British Olympic Football and the End of the Amateur Dream 320 sidor, inb., ill. Worthing, SX:...