Football and Accelerated Culture

In this new theorisation of global football culture, Steve Redhead explores the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Drawing on cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of `the people¿s game¿. The book includes international empirical research, examining themes such as the relationship between music and football, hooligans and ultras, and the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements. It offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies.