Games Without Frontiers

Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the authors -- Introduction Stillborn in the USA? -- Tradition and modernity in European football -- 1. Exporting football: notes on the development of football in Europe -- 2. Austrification as modernization: changes in Viennese football culture -- 3. "We are Celtic supporters ... ": questions of football and identity in modern Scotland -- 4. From Saint-Etienne to Marseilles: tradition and modernity in French soccer and society -- 5. The drive to modernization and the supermarket imperative: who needs a new football stadium? -- Identities: local, ethnic, national -- 6. ''Rangers is a black club": 'race', identity and local football in England -- 7. Football and identity in the Ruhr: the case of Schalke 04 -- 8. 'Wogball:' ethnicity and violence in Australian soccer -- 9. Masculinity and football: the formation of national identity in Argentina -- 10. The stars and the flags: individuality, collective identities and the national dimension in Italia '90 and Wimbledon '91 & '92 -- Subcultures of opposition -- 11. New supporter cultures and identity in France: the case of Paris Saint-Germain -- 12. False Leeds: the construction of hooligan confrontations -- 13. 'Keep it in the Family': an outline of Hibs' football hooligans' social ontology -- 14. The birth of the 'ultras': the rise of football hooliganism in Italy