Series editor's foreword -- Introduction: Football, Europe and the Press -- pt. 1. England -- 1. The bulldog spirit -- 2. This green and pleasant land -- 3. An Englishman's home ... -- pt. 2. France -- 4. La belle France: winning with style -- 5. Une et indivisible: Regional diversity in a unitary state -- 6. Ils sont fous ces Romains! The other in French football writing -- pt. 3. Spain -- 7. La Furia española: The pride and the passion of Spanish football -- 8. Viva la diferencia: Spain's nationalities and regions in its football writing -- 9. La Liga de las estrellas: Spain and the International Brigade -- Conclusion: Imagined identities?
Summary
This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the countries studied
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186)
