The work of professional football a labour of love?
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2006.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429712206719 |
| Summary: | 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. A former professional, Martin Roderick's familiarity with the world of football is the foundation for this privileged research into a world that is typically closed to the public gaze and ignored by media reportage and academic research which prefers to focus on a small, unrepresen |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134324910 9781280562983 9786610562985 9780203014950 |
