- Cover
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Introduction: Football grounds, grounds of struggle
- Part I: Defend: Working-class resistance to the bourgeois order
- 1. Kicking Off: Riotous balls and social control
- 2. Normalising bodies, shaping minds: The birth of an industrial sport
- 3. The people’s game: Football as a cultural trait of the working class
- 4. The munitionettes: The saga of the first women football players in Britain
- 5. Class against class: Working-class football in France, an extension of the field of struggle
- Part II: Attack: Assault on Dictatorships
- 6. ‘A small way of saying “no”’: Italy, the USSR, Spain: stadiums under totalitarian regimes
- 7. Ball at the feet against the iron fist: Football’s resistance to Nazi domination
- 8. ‘Corinthian democracy’: Football and self-organisation against Brazilian dictatorship
- 9. On the front line, Tahrir Square: Ultras Ahlawy fans at the heart of the 2011 revolution in Egypt
- Part III: Dribble: Outmanoeuvring colonialism
- 10. The Algerian Independence Eleven: A liberation struggle in football boots
- 11. When Palestine occupies the pitch: Football as a political weapon in the hands of the Palestinians
- 12. Dribbling the ball, a decolonial art: Afro-Brazilian identities and indigenous resistance in football
- 13. Sending colonialism off: Football and emancipation struggles in sub-Saharan Africa
- Part IV: Support: Collective passions and popular cultures
- 14. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: Hooliganism and subcultures in British stands
- 15. The twelfth man: The Italian ultras movement: from political militancy to supporter autonomy
- 16. ‘God and the devil’: Maradona, between popular passion and fan cult
- 17. ‘We are lovers, not fighters’: Istanbul’s ultras and Turkish power
- Part V: Outflank: Facing the football industry: fight and reinvent
- 18. Football for footballers!: From May ’68 to the fans’ revolt
- 19. Tackling sexism: Women’s football against the French sporting patriarchy
- 20. ‘Here it’s about punk football’: Fan-owned clubs in England
- 21. Playing on the left wing: Hamburg’s FC Sankt Pauli or the pirates of the football business
- 22. Wild balls, balls on the margins: Street football wrong-foots the institutional game
- Postscript to the English edition: Prolongations
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Index