Ebook: Soccer vs. the state: tackling football and radical politics

Examines the effects of big money interests of television and huge stadiums and corrupt politicians on the sport. Explores a radical soccer underground that sees the soccer as "the people's game" and tries to use it to effect fundamental change.;Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Foreword by Boff Whalley; Introduction; History: Truths and Myths about Football as a Working-Class Sport; Radical Debates on Football; Football and Politics; Football's Role as an "Opiate of the Masses"; Nationalism and Sectarianism; Fan Violence; The Commercialization of the Game and the "New Football Economy"; Bigotry in Football Culture; Radical Interventions in the Professional Game; A Stage for Protests; Social Justice Campaigns; Personalities; Teams; Supporters; Clubs as Cooperatives, Not as Corporations.