Rebellion: The Growth of Football's Protest Movement

Rebellion: The Growth of Football's Protest Movement
ISBN-10
1844542882
ISBN-13
9781844542888
Series
Rebellion
Category
Sports & Recreation
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Blake Pub
Author
Dougie Brimson

Description

One of the great joys of football fandom is that it provides the perfectpportunity to complain and make a point. For example, the referee was biased,he overpaid strikers hopeless, attendance poor, the tea weak and the piesnedible. That, for many fans, is a part of the attraction which footballolds for them. Yet every so often, a situation will arise at a club whereassive complaint is simply not enough - occasions where big business orndividual greed set out to exploit those who walk through the turnstiles,here freedoms are curtailed or where incompetent management is ruining aroud legacy. Against these indignations, there comes a point when it isction and not words that are required. "Rebellion" is about those situations.sing anecdotes and interviews with the people at the heart of the movements,s well as ordinary fans, it examines many of the well-known protests andooks at how and why certain groups of fans succeeded in their particularattle. Just as importantly, it also looks at why other campaigns failed andow, all too often, those protests simply degenerated into ugly violence,

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books