The 1953 FA Cup Final: Modernity and Tradition in British Culture

Johnes, Martin; Mellor, Gavin

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“…The Munich air disaster Johnes and Mellor (2006) describe how the 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton was the first UK club football fixture to reach a mass television audience, with Stanley Matthews becoming a 'national hero'. This represented a significant moment of change in how football was typically presented and consumed.…”

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Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities

Pope

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The experiences of female sports fans have largely been neglected in academic research to date with socio-historical accounts focusing almost exclusively on male fans. Through an excavation of the sporting histories of female football fans this article aims to make one contribution towards changing this. Drawing on Glaser and Strauss's 'grounded theory' approach, 21 semi-structured interviews were conducted with female football fans in England, aged between 50 and 80 years old. My findings begin by examining female fans' memories of the 1958 Munich air disaster. I move on to examine female experiences and interpretations of the 1966 World Cup finals, before finally discussing the rise of football players in England as sexualised national celebrities. To conclude, I call for further socio-historical research to explore female experiences of football in earlier decades.

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Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities

Pope

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Notwithstanding a six-year sojourn in the early 2000s at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium while Wembley was being rebuilt, the stadium has been home to and synonymous with what is simply referred to as 'the cup final' for almost a century. From the first FA Cup final in 1923 -the 'White Horse final' between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United(Hill 2004) -to the 'Stanley Matthews final' some thirty years later(Johnes and Mellor 2006); Wembley has provided the backdrop for a litany of iconic images, invoked as the 'magic of the cup', and now woven into the fabric of the world's oldest football tournament.…”

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Towards an ‘Everyday’ Cultural Political Economy of English Football: Conceptualising the Futures of Wembley Stadium and the Grassroots Game

Webber

2021

New Political Economy

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UK). His principal research interest lies in the political economy of football and he has published a growing number of books and journal articles in the oftenintersecting fields of football fan culture, governance, globalisation, finance, British politics, and international development. Towards an 'everyday' cultural political economy of English football: conceptualising the futures of Wembley Stadium and the grassroots gameThe proposed sale of Wembley Stadium in 2018 raised the possibility of a windfall that could be reinvested into the grassroots tier of English football. This bid was ultimately withdrawn but, as this article demonstrates, the episode highlighted the co-constitutive relationship between the everyday cultural base of English football, and those political and economic discourses, strategies, and trajectories that have been pursued within the sport and wider society. Developing a theoretical approach conceptualised here as 'everyday' cultural political economy, this article considers the cultural histories, objects, spaces and practices whose futures were both at stake in this transactionnamely, Wembley and the grassroots gameand the material effects that austerity and a skewed distribution of wealth have had upon the everyday cultural production of English football. The proposed sale of Wembley, it is argued here, failed to sufficiently account for and mitigate the impact that these political and economic effects have had upon the 'everyday culture' of grassroots football. The concluding remarks of this article call for a strategy that foregrounds the cultural base of English football and those quotidian practices that have come to be recast by the unequal power relations extant to the contemporary game.

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Stade de France and Wembley as Social Space: A Tale of Two Stadiums

Dauncey

2023

The Political Football Stadium

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The 1953 FA Cup Final: Modernity and Tradition in British Culture

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities

Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities

Towards an ‘Everyday’ Cultural Political Economy of English Football: Conceptualising the Futures of Wembley Stadium and the Grassroots Game

Stade de France and Wembley as Social Space: A Tale of Two Stadiums

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