Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915 (revised edition)

Tony Mason is the author of Sport in Britain (1998); Passion of the People? Football in South America (1995); and co-author of Sport in Britain 1945–2000 (2000) and Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880–1960 (2011). He has taught at Nottingham, Edinburgh, Hull, Warwick and De Montfort Universities in the United Kingdom. Dilwyn Porter is Honorary Professor of Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University and Visiting Professor of Modern History at Newman University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

A note on the text

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT

THE CLUBS

AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS

THE PLAYERS

THE CROWD

DRINK, GAMBLING AND THE SPORTING PRESS

THE GAME

FOOTBALL AND THE WORKERS

IN CONCLUSION

Select bibliography

Index