Work of Professional Football : : A Labour of Love? / / Martin Roderick.
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived....
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction 1 Professional football in context 2 Attitudes to work in professional football 3 Uncertainty and football injuries 4 Injuries, stigma and social identity 5 Transferring and the transformation of self 6 Transfer markets and informal grapevines 7 Control and the process of transferring 8 The fate of idealism in professional football Notes Bibliography Index.