Fact Sheets

This is an archive of the resource which were offered by the Centre for the Sociology of Sport. The Centre has now closed and these pages are no longer updated.

The following Fact Sheets have been produced by the Centre. They are designed to give a brief outline of each particular topic, in order to provide a starting point for students interested in researching aspects of football. They also contain reference points and a guide to further reading.

Each of the files are available as a web page and as an Acrobat PDF file (their size is shown in brackets).

1. Football and Football Hooliganism (web page [91K] or pdf [147K] )

2. Football Stadia After Taylor (web page [77K] or pdf [133K] )

3. Why Support Football? (web page [231K] or pdf [1.2MB] )

4. Black Footballers in Britain (web page [44K] or pdf [113K] )

5. Women and Football (web page [98K] or pdf [200K] )

6. Racism and Football (web page [70K] or pdf [82K] )

7. Fan 'Power' and Democracy in Football (web page [94K] or pdf [367K] )

8. British Football on Television (web page [92K] or pdf [93K] )

9. A Brief History of Female Football Fans (web page [67K] or pdf [235K] )

10. The 'New' Football Economics (web page [103K] or pdf [106K] )

11. Branding, sponsorship and commerce in football (web page [60K] or pdf [91K] )

12. A History of FIFA and the World Cup Finals 2002 in Japan and Korea
    (web page [93K] or pdf [183K] )

13. A Profile of FA Premier League Club Supporters in 2000 (web page [56K] or pdf [137K] )

14. Football and families (web page [64K] or pdf [49K] )

15. Refereeing (web page [82K] or pdf [139K] )

16. The Bosman Ruling, Football Transfers and Foreign Footballers (web page [126K] or pdf [141K] )