| Description |
1 online resource (204 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Introduction; Parklife; Trenchmouth; The Tableau Vivant; Living the Dream; Sex in the Stadium; Losing: My Religion; Football is Therapy; Conclusion. |
| Summary |
In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide preoccupation with football. Does anybody have the answer? This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life. For the paradox is that this very madness is simultaneously therapeutic: football as an insistent provocation, repeatedly re-inaugurating the reverie or drift, disrupted by those moments of the most int. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Psychological aspects.
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Soccer -- Psychological aspects. |
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Soccer fans -- Psychology.
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Soccer fans -- Psychology. |
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Soccer fans. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oakley, Chris. Football delirium. London : Karnac Books, 2007 1855754789 (OCoLC)171111529 |
| ISBN |
9781849405898 (electronic book) |
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1849405891 (electronic book) |
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1855754789 |
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9781855754782 |
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