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The Football Pools and the British Working Class - A Political, Social and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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The Football Pools and the British Working Class - A Political, Social and Cultural History (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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This book is the first national study of the football pools in
Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on
the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools,
focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged
decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of
the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling
activity became a significant leisure opportunity for the working
class - a way to feel that the individual skill of the punter could
lead to the winning of some life-changing jackpot cheque being
presented by a sporting personality of celebrity. Dominated by
Littlewoods, and other large commercial companies, the weekly
filling-in of the coupons was considered to be a safe form of
investment, guaranteed by the integrity of the pool companies,
rather than some seedy gambling operation. The Football Pools and
the British Working Class looks at different elements of the
football pools from what attracted people to this form of gambling
to how the industry developed and adjusted to the suspension of the
football fixtures in 1936, and the bad winter of 1962-3. Above all,
it examines the deep hostility that surrounded the filling in of
the football pools arising from the National Anti-Gambling League,
religious groups, the football authorities and MPs. This book will
appeal to all those interested in the history of British football
and 20th century British working class culture.
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