Football: The First Hundred Years : the Untold StoryPsychology Press, 2005 - 289 páginas The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. |
Índice
1 What football was not | 1 |
2 Entertaining the social elite | 18 |
3 Football outside the public schools | 51 |
4 An epoch in the annals of sport | 92 |
5 Footballing backwaters? | 126 |
6 Football splits up but goes national | 167 |
7 Kicking and carrying | 178 |
8 Cupsleagues and professionals | 206 |
9 Conclusions | 229 |
Appendix | 233 |
Notes | 242 |
Bibliography | 278 |