Footy Passions.
Salary caps, drunken escapades, sponsorship deals, and teams enjoying victory and surviving defeat dominate coverage of football. Meanwhile fans agonise over line-ups, sweat over results, and look forward to the weekly football ritual. With each new season, having hibernated over the long, hot summe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sydney :
University of NSW Press,
2009
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Salary caps, drunken escapades, sponsorship deals, and teams enjoying victory and surviving defeat dominate coverage of football. Meanwhile fans agonise over line-ups, sweat over results, and look forward to the weekly football ritual. With each new season, having hibernated over the long, hot summer, the team emerges as if revived and raises hopes anew. The keen supporter is hooked back into a revived ritual of precarious pleasures that is played out within quasi-tribal cheer squads, intense friendship networks and, at least momentarily, united nuclear families. What hooks fans back in and wh. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781742231952 1742231950 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
