Liz Crolley is Lecturer in the Business of Football and Communications in the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool, UK. David Hand is Senior Lecturer in French at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
1 Introduction PART I Old Europe 2 England: theirs is not to reason why 3
France: the style counsel 4 Germany: past performance equals future value 5
Italy: high drama, fine art, classic design 6 Spain: land of hope and fury
PART II Nations within states 7 One nation, one team, one image: Catalunya
and the Basque Country in Spain 8 Beauty or the beast? The Corsican
question PART III New (football) worlds 9 The colonial shadow: Africans in
the French imagination 10 Only in America: representations of the USA
national team 11 Marshalling art: the portrayal of North East Asian
football
