Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football: Comparative Responses across Europe

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Peter Kennedy David Kennedy

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football

Comparative Responses across Europe

Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy

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Routledge
26 October 2012

Sociology: sport & leisure; Sport & leisure industries; Football (Soccer, Association football)

Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by 'thinking business' - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs to compete at the highest levels. In critical studies, supporters have been portrayed as passive or reluctant consumers who, imprisoned by enduring club loyalties, embody a fatalistic attitude to their own exploitation. As this book aims to show, however, such expressions of loyalty are far from hegemonic and often interface haphazardly with traditional ideas about what constitutes the 'loyal fan'. While there is little doubt that professional football is experiencing commodification, the reality is that football clubs are not simply businesses, nor can they ever aspire to be organisations driven solely by expanding or protecting economic value. Rather, clubs hover uncertainly between being businesses and community assets. The aim of this book is to render the implications of this uncertainty for understanding football supporter resistance to, and compromise with, commodification. Moreover, every club and their supporters exist in their own unique national and local contexts. In this respect, our book offers a Euro-wide comparison of supporter reactions to commercialisation. In doing so, the book will provide a unique insight into how football supporters actively mediate regional, local and national contexts, as they intersect with the universalistic presumptions of commerce.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Edited by: Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780415618908
ISBN 10: 0415618908
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 26 October 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Kennedy lectures in the Sociology of sport and health at Glasgow Caledonian University. His most recent published work is in applying sociological theories to understanding health and medicine and football supporter responses to commercialisation. David Kennedy is Visiting Lecturer and Researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University. His most recent published work is in the area of football supporters and governance of professional football clubs.