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Amateurism in British Sport - It Matters Not Who Won or Lost? (Hardcover, New)
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Amateurism in British Sport - It Matters Not Who Won or Lost? (Hardcover, New)
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The ideal of the amateur competitor, playing the game for love and,
unlike the professional, totally untainted by commerce, has become
embedded in many accounts of the development of modern sport. It
has proved influential not least because it has underpinned a
pervasive impression of professionalism - and all that came with it
- as a betrayal of innocence, a fall from sporting grace. In the
essays collected here, amateurism, both as ideology and practice,
is subject to critical and unsentimental scrutiny, effectively
challenging the dominant narrative of more conventional histories
of British sport. Most modern sports, even those where
professionalism developed rapidly, originated in an era when the
gentlemanly amateur predominated, both in politics and society, as
well as in the realm of sport. Enforcement of rules and conventions
that embodied the amateur-elite ethos effectively limited
opportunities for working-class competitors to 'turn the world
upside down'. This book was previously published as a special issue
of Sport in History.
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