This text presents a detailed economic analysis of professional football at club level, using a combination of economic reasoning and statistical and econometric analysis. Most of the original empirical research reported in the book is based on English club football.
by Katch, Frank I., D. Katch, Victor L., MacArdle, William
Examines the key processes and structures that have underpinned the globalization of sport, from the emergence of a global sport power elite and the erosion of folk body cultures to the emphasis on the athlete as machine.
'Sport has changed. Traditions and territorial distinctions are dissolving as a result of new global, political, economic and cultural conditions. The team of authors examine these changes, investigating the power relations that govern the new global sport and assessing the cons…
Tannenbergs Neffe nimmt an einem Zehnkampf teil. Während des 100m-Laufs wird ein Sprinter von der Kugel eines Heckenschützen niedergestreckt. Am nächsten Tag entdeckt man in einer Weitsprunggrube einen Sportler, der ebenfalls mit einem Präzisionsschuss getötet wurde. Der heimtüc…
