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{"title":"Football migration in the Czech Republic: A multi-level analysis of football migration in a semi-peripheral European Nation","authors":"William Crossan, Jakub Riedl","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2261379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2261379","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFootball migration, including flows and effects, is measured over the first 27 years of the independent Czech Football League. Hierarchical multi-level analysis is used to test previous sport migration effects. Particular attention is paid to the economic and sport position of both sending and receiving nations by examining results through the world-systems theory. Though the number of football migrants continues to rapidly increase, the statistical results of this study indicate that receiving football migrants into the semi-periphery nation of Czech, where football is a primary sport, may increase winning percentage in the short term, but it does not lead to increases in fan attendance or improve the nation’s FIFA rankings. Longer term deliberation needs to be taken by individual club teams, as well as national federations, in order maximize the benefits of migration flows in the future. AcknowledgmentsParts of this research were previously included in the second author’s master’s thesis written in the Czech language.Footnote59Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. ČeskéUnie Sport, Ročenka ČUS 2020.2. Bale and Maguire, The Global Sports Arena: Athletic Talent Migration in an Interdependent World.3. Nolasco, “Player Migration in Portuguese Football”; Lanfranchi and Taylor, Moving with the Ball; Darby, “Africa’s Place in FIFA’s Global Order: A Theoretical Frame”.; Darby, “Out of Africa”; Brewer, “The Commercial Transformation of World Football and the North – South Divide”.4. Crossan and Ruda, “Sport Migration Influences on Cultural Brand Image: A Quantitative World-Systems Analysis”; Andreff and Scelles, “Walter C. Neale 50 Years After”; Baur and Lehmann, “Does the Mobility of Football Players Influence the Success of the National Team?”; Berlinschi, Schokkaert, and Swinnen, “When Drains and Gains Coincide”; Glennon et al., “Does Employing Skilled Immigrants Enhance Competitive Performance?”; Lago-Peñas, Lago-Peñas, and Lago, “Player Migration and Soccer Performance”; Travlos, Dimitropoulos, and Panagiotopoulos, “Foreign Player Migration and Athletic Success in Greek Football”.5. Wallerstein, “The Modern World System”.6. Maguire and Pearton, “The Impact of Elite Labour Migration on the Identification, Selection and Development of European Soccer Players./Impact de La Migration de La Main d ” Oeuvre Qualifiee Sur l ’ Identification, La Selection et Le Developpement Des JeunesFootballeursEuropeens’.; Crossan and Ruda, “Sport Migration Influences on Cultural Brand Image: A Quantitative World-Systems Analysis”.7. Magee and Sugden, “‘The World at Their Feet’: Professional Football and International Labor Migration”.8. Darby, “Africa’s Place in FIFA’s Global Order: A Theoretical Frame”.; Darby, “Moving Players, Traversing Perspectives”; Stamm and Lamprecht, “Factors Governing Success in International Football: Tradition, Wealth and Size – or Is There More to It?”.9. Crossan, W., “Applying So","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Palimpsest: women write about football","authors":"Amir Ben Porat","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2250989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young and burned out – the dilemma of women’s elite football. Early termination of the football career for elite women footballers in Norway caused by a high degree of emotional and interpersonal stressors","authors":"Linda Wilhelmsen","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2262925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2262925","url":null,"abstract":"Early termination of football careers is a challenge for elite women footballers. They quit their careers before experience, competence, and performance are fully developed, and women’s football is deprived of the opportunity to develop to the highest optimal quality. Women’s elite football is mostly semi-professional, with athletes juggling between football, work, and education. This qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with Norwegian elite women footballers (N = 7). Findings suggest the main reason for early termination is the heavy workload due to the combination of studies, work, and elite-level football, which led to exhaustion and burnout. It indicates that providing enough time to recover, fewer “to-dos” pushed into the day, and sufficient resources, hinder the harmful effects of a heavy total workload. The aim of the article is to highlight the reasons for the early termination of football careers for elite women footballers in Norway and the challenges of reaching international standards.","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136341723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Bigger than football’: racist talk on and off the soccer pitch","authors":"Jan Chovanec","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250660","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRacism is a major social and cultural problem that has, in various forms, plagued football for a long time. Despite the attempts of official bodies to root it out, racist talk and behaviour are still rife among players as well as in fan communities. The present paper provides a case study of online users’ comments on the media coverage of a series of controversial incidents during a recent UEFA Europa League matchinvolving an alleged verbal act of racial abuse between two players. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, the paper contrasts how the match controversies were reflected in the users’ public online discourses in two different cultural communities, namely the UK and the Czech Republic, and identifies some of the similarities and differences between the two. The analysis shows how the users reframe the underlying racist issue, trivialize it through humour and relativize its seriousness. The data indicate that such discourses surrounding football are important for understanding how fans construct various group identities and how specific socio-cultural contexts influence the perception of race-related controversies . Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Rangers coach Steven Gerrard used this phrase when talking about the key incident during his press conference on 18 March 2021: “You could say it’s been a test. I’ve tried to handle the situation in the best way I can but one thing that’s non-negotiable for me is the support for my players. I said last night that some things happen along your way as a player, a coach or a manager that aren’t really football related; they’re bigger than football or a different issue from football”. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfkc9NfIoys, time 8.22)2. Schmid, “The Definition of Racism”; Weaver, “Liquid Racism and the Ambiguity of Ali G”.3. van Dijk, “Racist Discourse”.4. Back et al., “Racism in Football”, 77.5. Gavins and Simpson, “Regina v John Terry”.6. Wolfers et al., “Just Because He’s Black”; Wolfers, “Self-directed Racialized Humor”.7. Back et al., “Racism in Football”, 77.8. Or, what Johansson (“Everyday Opinions in News Discussion Forums”) refers to as “everyday opinion” or “public vernacular discourse”.9. See Wrench and Garrett, “Constructions of ‘Whiteness’”; Kroon, “Recontextualizing Racism and Segregation”.10. See, for instance, Cleland, “Racism, Football Fans, and Online Message Boards”.11. Scholarly interest in online newspaper reader comments boards typically adopts a CDA perspective and concentrates on a single set of data (e.g. British) in order to identify racist themes and discourses (cf. Rowe and Goodman (“A Stinking Filthy Race of People”), Santana (“Virtuous or Vitriolic”), Harlow (“Story-chatterers Stirring Up Hate”), Catalano and Fielder (“European Spaces and the Roma”), Chovanec (“Irony as Counter Positioning”); and similar studies on social media data, e.g. Breazu and Machin (“Racism Toward the Rom","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Video Assistant Referee (VAR), gender and football refereeing: a scoping review","authors":"Sigbjørn Skirbekk","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2256231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2256231","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing use of VAR globally affects the refereeing role and may have unintended gendered consequences for referees. This scoping review 1) summarizes and maps the research on refereeing, gender, and VAR in football, 2) identifies and analyzes knowledge gaps in the field, and 3) suggests recommendations for practice, and future research. The review indicates that the combination of gender and technology, and how they impact the refereeing role, is not featured in research. Instead, VAR studies mainly focus on the outcome of decisions, while research on gender and refereeing concerns individual experiences of female referees. The review further shows the implementation of certain technologies in football, and their consequences for male and female referees, has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. Future studies should utilize organizational, intersectional, and medial perspectives to understand how VAR and other novel refereeing technologies can be used to achieve gender equity in refereeing.","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The language and discourse(s) of football. Interdisciplinary and cross-modal perspectives: introduction to the thematic issue","authors":"Marcus Callies, Melanie Fleischhacker, Eva-Maria Graf","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2250658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250658","url":null,"abstract":"is essentially unnatural","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134913186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dingley Dell: a conundrum, within a puzzle, hiding behind a contradiction","authors":"Phil Martin, Graham Curry","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2246780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2246780","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article traces the life of a football club at the forefront of the game’s initial development in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Dingley Dell’s football arm was founded in 1858 but disappeared from view in 1864, during which time they engaged mainly in matches against the schools of Westminster and Charterhouse. However, their history has been sorely neglected and this paper is designed to redress that balance. The most significant question Dingley Dell’s existence poses is why they failed to send a representative to the early meetings of the Football Association in late 1863. Yet, in a story full of contradictions, even their absence appears open to question. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Dingley Dell were rarely referred to as a “Football” club, probably because they also played cricket, and several players were involved in both teams. For instance, Anthony John Anstruther Wilkinson and Algernon Rutter were part of the team that were narrowly defeated by South Essex in May 1863 (Bell’s Life, May 24, 1863).2. Readers will note part of the title of this article as being borrowed from Winston Churchill’s description – “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” - of the Soviet Union in 1939.3. An athenaeum in Ancient Greece was the name given to a building dedicated to the goddess Athena where poets and authors gathered to discuss their work. In Victorian England, they were buildings which housed newspaper and periodicals. They were also centres for sport. Indeed, Hulme Athenaeum in Manchester has been identified as being the first football club in that area, probably being founded as early as 1863 (James, Emergence of Footballing Cultures).4. Manchester Daily Examiner and Times, November 201,857.5. Manchester Courier, July 20, 1861.6. Bell’s Life, June 27, 1858.7. See Charterhouse versus Dingley Dell cricket report in Bell’s Life, June 27, 1858.8. Bell’s Life, June 27, 1858.9. Ibid, December 12, 1858.10. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, September 7, 1905.11. Bonney’s most comprehensive obituary appears in the Saffron Walden Weekly News on 14 December 1923.12. Bonney, Memories: 17.13. Bell’s Life, February 26, 1860.14. A prestigious award of 48 scholarships at Westminster School decided by an annual competitive examination. Depending on the monarch, they are named either Queen’s or King’s Scholars.15. Bell’s Life, December 9, 1860.16. Ibid, February 2, 1862.17. Ibid., February 23, 1862.18. Ibid, February 23, 1862.19. Ibid., March 9, 1862.20. Ibid.21. The Field, March 15, 1862.22. Bell’s Life, November 2, 1862.23. Ibid., November 23, 1862.24. Interestingly, Cobb’s son Edward attended Eton and Trinity, Cambridge.25. Foster’s school was quite hard to find, as it is neither mentioned in Joseph Foster’s Men-at-the-Bar nor the records of Christ Church, Oxford. However, his obituary is included in the Bedfordshire Times and Independent - as in similar obituaries, there is no ment","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134913165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fan identity and football culture: locating variation in the discursive performance of football fan identities in a UK stadium","authors":"Kieran File, Thomas Worlledge","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2250662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2250662","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we critically assess a common discourse of the football fan as hooligan, with the help of insights generated from a linguistic ethnography of football fan behaviour in one of their natural environments – the football stadium during a live match. Football fans have long been stereotypically understood through notions of hooliganism, with violent and aggressive behaviour frequently identified as a marker of this social group. However, researchers like Gary Armstrong have begun to problematize these discourses, claiming that only a tiny minority of football fans are in fact violent. In this article, we contribute to these efforts by drawing on insights gathered from a linguistic ethnography of football fans at an English, League 1 professional football club – Burton Albion Football Club. Researchers collected over 10 h of observational data, primarily in the form of field notes that documented all manner of fan behaviour – including songs, talk directed at players on the field, interactions amongst fans, reactions to on field events – across different sections of the stadium. The findings not only challenge the stereotypical notion of the football fan as hooligan, but they also highlight distinct subcultures being constructed within the same stadium through different behavioural tendencies and expectations regarding acceptable behaviour. These findings not only illustrate that the view of football fans as hooligans is uncritical and unsophisticated, but that our broader understanding of football fans is under theorized. Empirical insights of the kind provided by linguistic ethnographic work can help to challenge unchecked discourses about football fans that are perpetuated without a well-founded evidence base and help locate new dimensions for studying this important group of people in the wider football landscape.","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135784906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Football for development, an arena for imperial hierarchies? Racism, the ‘white colonial frame’, and junior football in Belgium","authors":"Nathan D’Hoore, Jeroen Scheerder","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2256232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2256232","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to critically examine the paradoxical coexistence of social benefits and the perpetuation of racism in Belgian club-organised junior football. In doing so, this article begins by providing a literature review of racism in junior football and describes the social, historical, and political context in which the research is taking place. Subsequently, we draw on 15 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in Belgian club-organised football about their personal experiences with racism to examine attitudes towards race, manifestations of racism, and its formative aspect. Based on the analyses, the article argues that the “white colonial frame” serves as a dominant attitude towards race in Belgian club-organised football. Ultimately, this cultural place does not inherently entail social progression or transformation, rather it reinscribes the dominant racial frame and sustains a status quo. Social progression seems only achievable through the decolonisation of ideologies and reform of social norms.","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135939266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inserting Kurdishness within Swedish football","authors":"Tiago Duarte Dias","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2256240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2256240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}