Supporter Ownership in English Football Class, Culture and Politics

This book presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding the structural transformations English football has seen in recent decades, to consider the contested cultural ground upon which football fando

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CHRIS PORTER

FOOTBALL RESEARCH IN AN ENLARGED EUROPE Series editors: A. Sonntag; D. Ranc

Football Research in an Enlarged Europe

Series Editors Albrecht Sonntag ESSCA School of Management EU-Asia Institute Angers, France Dàvid Ranc ESSCA School of Management EU-Asia Institute Angers, France

This series will publish monographs and edited collections in collaboration with a major EU-funded FP7 research project ‘FREE’: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. The series aims to establish Football Studies as a worthwhile, intellectual and pedagogical activity of academic significance and will act as a home for the burgeoning area of contemporary Football scholarship. The themes covered by the series in relation to football include, European identity, Memory, Women, Governance, History, the Media, Sports Mega-events, Business and Management, Culture, Spectatorship and Space and Place. The series will be highly interdisciplinary and transnational and the first of its kind to map state-of-the-art academic research on one of the world’s largest, most supported and most debated socio-cultural phenomenona. Editorial Board: Richard Giulianotti (Loughborough University, UK) Kay Schiller (Durham University, UK) Geoff Pearson (Liverpool University, UK) Jürgen Mittag (German Sport University Cologne, Germany) Stacey Pope (Durham University, UK) Peter Millward (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Geoff Hare (Newcastle University, UK) Arne Niemann (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) David Goldblatt (Sports writer and broadcaster, UK) Patrick Mignon (National Institute for Sports and Physical Education, France). More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14987

Chris Porter

Supporter Ownership in English Football Class, Culture and Politics

The FREE – Football Research in an Enlarged Europe – project (www.free-project.eu) has received funding from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development & demonstration under grant agreement № 290805.

Chris Porter Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK

Football Research in an Enlarged Europe ISBN 978-3-030-05437-3 ISBN 978-3-030-05438-0  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05438-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966685 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and