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Pay Up and Play the Game - Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Pay Up and Play the Game - Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and
Play the Game, first published in 1988, presents a systematic
economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during
the years prior to World War I. It explores the tensions behind an
increasingly commercialised activity that was nonetheless suffused
with 'gentlemanly' values at many levels, and highlights the
retreat of the latter as working-class consumption and
participation became predominant, symbolised most dramatically by
the celebrated victory of proletarian Blackburn Olympic over the
Old Etonians in the FA Cup final of 1883. Wray Vamplew examines the
linkages between sport, gambling, crime and spectator violence, and
concludes that many supposedly 'recent' developments (notably
football hooliganism) in fact have their origins in this, the
'Golden Age' of sport in Britain.
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