It is Sunday the 11th of July 2020 and football fans are impatiently waiting for the finals of the European championship which will take place in one of the most well-known stadiums in England and furthermore in the world, the Wembley stadium. It is the place where dreams will come true for one of t...
By Christina Wurst Why study (Anglophone) fan cultures? When you mention that you are writing a PhD on fan cultures, people’s first question is often “You can do a PhD on that?”. The term ‘fans’ typically calls to mind screaming girls at a boy band concert, football fans going on a rampage after a g...
: Soccer fans’ aggressiveness has serious consequences for individuals and society. However, its predictive factors have been poorly investigated. This study aimed to examine variables that predict soccer fans’ aggressiveness. This survey, correlational and cross-sectional research involved 210 part...
The past 25 years have seen an unprecedented Europeanisation of the structures and governance in football across the continent. A European (and global) transfer market for players and managers has become the norm and a pan-European league system has been established that regularly exposes supporters...
The past 25 years have seen an unprecedented Europeanisation of the structures and governance in football across the continent. A European (and global) transfer market for players and managers has become the norm and a pan-European league system has been established that regularly exposes supporters...
Across Europe, national professional football leagues have seen increasing numbers of players from other EU states, while the Champions League and the Europa League have become a focal point for many teams. This article seeks to investigate how far this Europeanisation on the organisational level of...
Across Europe, national professional football leagues have seen increasing numbers of players from other EU states, while the Champions League and the Europa League have become a focal point for many teams. This article seeks to investigate how far this Europeanisation on the organisational level of...
The idea that competitive balance increases the utility of fans, and therefore their spending and the revenue of professional clubs, lies at the heart of sports economics in general and the economics of football in particular. This notion of competitive balance is often invoked to explain the decisi...
"Four studies were conducted to examine how self and group identity fusion is related to self - construals, self - perception of agentic and communal traits, and the desire for self - and group ve rification. In study 1 ( N 1 = 244), identity fusion in relation to country and gender was exam- ined,...
Public Space “Ultras” supporters killed outside a Cairo Stadium: On February 8, 2015, Zamalek football fans were killed in the main gate of the Air Force Stadium, a 4-metres-wide cage made of iron bars and barbed wire (in order to control the crowd), while trying to enter the match between Zamalek a...
L’ouvrage tente d’expliquer comment et pourquoi le football est devenu, entre les années 1940 et les années 1970, un phénomène culturel central dans la société italienne. À partir d’un exemple littéraire qui a connu un succès planétaire, celui du combat épique entre la Gaillarde de don Camillo et la...