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    Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918
    Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918
    Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918
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    Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918

    By Alexander Jackson

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    As modern football grapples with the implications of a global crisis, this book looks at first in the game’s history: The First World War. The game’s structure and fabric faced existential challenges as fundamental questions were asked about its place and value in English society. This study explores how conflict reshaped the People’s Game on the English Home Front. The wartime seasons saw football's entire commercial model challenged and questioned. In 1915, the FA banned the payment of players, reopening a decades-old dispute between the game's early amateur values and its modern links to the world of capital and lucrative entertainment. Wartime football forced supporters to consider whether the game should continue, and if so, in what form? Using an array of previously unused sources and images, this book explores how players, administrators and fans grappled with these questions as daily life was continually reshaped by the demands of total war. From grassroots to elite football, players to spectators, gambling to charity work, this study examines the social, economic and cultural impact of what became Football's Great War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 6, 2022
    ISBN9781399002219
    Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918

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      Football’s Great War – A wonderful addition to Football during the war years.Over recent years there have been many books published on Football and the First World War. This one is different from the others rather than focus on the battalions or football club, this focuses on what was happening on the home front. This certainly a book that can sit very comfortably with other books on the subject. This is thought provoking research, written by the curator of the National Football Museum in Manchester, Dr Alexander Jackson. This is the first book to cover Football on the Home Front and a very welcome edition it is too.Jackson reminds us of the progress that Football had made in the previous fifty years to the outbreak of war. How in Britain the game had been codified, played both professionally and with a thriving amateur game alongside, even if they did not get along very often.There have been many tales and depictions over the years of how football stopped at the outbreak of war, after being forced too. This book shows us that this was not the case, and that football did not disappear because the FA had banned professionalism. What it does show is how important the continuance of the game was in any form for the morale of the British public.This excellent book of over 300 pages and twenty-chapters, and an excellent bibliography fills avoid on sport during the war. There are some excellent chapters, and this book is not all about the male variant of football it reminds us of Women’s football, something the FA would ruin for fifty years after the war.This is an excellent book, that you can dip in and out of. Dr Jackson has written an excellent book and this needs to reach a wide audience.

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