By Daniel Burdsey

Because the first edited assortment devoted particularly to race, ethnicity and British soccer, this ebook brings jointly a variety of teachers, comprising either validated commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the amount will addresses a wide selection of themes corresponding to the reports of Muslims, the recruitment of African avid gamers, devolution and nationwide identities, case experiences of minority ethnic golf equipment, "mixed-race" avid gamers, multiculturalism and anti-racism, sectarianism, schooling, and international membership possession. masking the either novice spheres, and focusing on either gamers and supporters, the booklet elucidates the linkages among race, ethnicity, gender and masculinity.

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They have power and therefore in the modern game they are quick and strong. Most of them are centre-backs or centre-forwards. They are also hungry, but I cannot believe we don’t have hungry players in Europe. Maybe they practice in the streets. . If they are only motivated by money it does not last. . The danger, if you buy because you are desperate, is that you overpay and you have no time. (Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager, cited in Evening Standard 2008). INTRODUCTION This chapter considers the reluctance of academic sports scholarship and sports journalism to acknowledge how features of slavery have led to the underdevelopment of African football.

This analysis is based on different personal observational positions as a licensed coach, scout, sports scientist, MBA sports graduate and evicted African. The chapter criticises this reluctance as disguising the replication of the exploitation of the black body. The intent is to assess the potential of football to reproduce specific features of the slave period; namely venturing into African communities and taking black children away through contemporary notions of talent identification. It argues that there is a connection between marketing and business theories in football in the way they have colluded with the scientific constructions of black men as compatible with a specific physical labour role, now operational inside football.

INTRODUCTION This chapter considers the reluctance of academic sports scholarship and sports journalism to acknowledge how features of slavery have led to the underdevelopment of African football. This analysis is based on different personal observational positions as a licensed coach, scout, sports scientist, MBA sports graduate and evicted African. The chapter criticises this reluctance as disguising the replication of the exploitation of the black body. The intent is to assess the potential of football to reproduce specific features of the slave period; namely venturing into African communities and taking black children away through contemporary notions of talent identification.

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