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Football's world cup and its fans - reflections on national styles : a photo essay on Germany 2006
The football World Cup is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. The notion of post-fandom tries to capture the ways in which fans now participate in and engage in self-aware and reflexive strategies to obtain their desired outcomes from attendance at or viewing such major events. This illustrated photo-essay on the World Cup looks at the experiences and behaviour of fans in three countries, Scotland, Germany and Australia, during the tournament with a view to extending our understanding of the relationships between fans and others temporarily interested in the World Cup and the promoters of such mega-events. It argues that the participants brought a wide range of expectations to the tournament and engaged in highly flexible and innovative approaches to ensure that they gained the maximum benefit, individually and collectively, from the experience.
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Soccer & societyVolume
8Issue
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1 - 32Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1466-0970eISSN
1743-9590Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2007, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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