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Passing Rhythms - Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football (Paperback, Revised)
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Passing Rhythms - Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football (Paperback, Revised)
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Liverpool Football Club, in stark contrast to its competitors,
remains locally owned, not a conglomerate or media business. Unlike
its main rivals, the Liverpool club has been loathe to pursue
global markets for merchandizing - though it attracts a huge fandom
around the world - and its ambitions remain resolutely fixed on
footballing success. No football club has ever had such an extended
period of dominance in the English game, nor extended that
dominance to Europe so effectively.Many of the current crop of top
young players are locally born and are a central feature of the
city's nightlife, as well as national icons in pop/football/youth
culture. But there are fears that the Club's great days have now
passed. At the height of its powers in the 1980s, Liverpool FC was
the site of two catastrophic crowd disasters, which effectively
transformed the sport and added to wounding perceptions about the
city's alleged sentimentality, fatalism and irreversible decline.
The legacy of the Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies continues to
shape the self-image of the Club and those who support it. A
seething rivalry with nearby corporate giant Manchester United is a
constant reminder of football's new order.Addressing all of these
concerns, as well as Liverpool's global reputation as the home of
the Beatles and the 'Mersey sound', this book takes an original
approach to the study of football by examining its links with other
important popular culture forms, especially pop music, but also
television and youth styles. In particular, however, it looks at
the very special meaning of football in Liverpool.
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