How Football Began, Tony Collins
How Football Began, Tony Collins
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How Football Began
A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

Author: Tony Collins

Narrator: Ric Jerrom

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2020

Synopsis

This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.

Reviews

Goodreads review by F

I love a good historical contextualisation of the things I love the most that legitimises my love for them, and How Football Began gave me precisely that. Touching heavily upon the basis of the sport in its origin (muscular Christianity, professionalism vs amateurism, class struggle), I loved the wa......more

Goodreads review by Diego

I hope one day to meet author Tony Collins just to shake his hand and say how much I admire his work. The nerdiest thing I've ever come up with is a list of favourite scholars - of vastly different fields that I'm interested in - and professor Collins comes right up at the top of it (for reference,......more

Goodreads review by Malcolm

One of the things I have long been taken by in my professional life as a scholar of sport is the multiple meanings of the word ‘football’, having lived in places where it refers to seemingly very different practices. Yet the more I looked at it, and in the late 1990s having been one of the initial m......more

Goodreads review by Ztu

An excellent introduction to the background of all football codes. Must read for all sports fans and social culture fiends. Just a few mispronunciations on the audiobook that no doubt wouldn't have happened if Tony read it.......more

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