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Liz Crolley worked at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research in Leicester before joining the Department of Languages at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1991. She is currently working at the University of Liverpool in the Business School's Football Industry Group. Her research examines the social, historical and political aspects of football culture and football and gender as well as the sport's structures and organisation especially in Spain, Italy and Argentina. She has published extensively in these areas including the co-authored book Football, Nationality and the State published by Addison Wesley Longman in 1996. She has produced a series on football for the BBC World Service and has acted as interpreter for Liverpool Football Club on its European campaigns.

Recent Publications

'Business or Pleasure: The Impact of the European Union and the Economic and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Football' (with R. Levermore and G. Pearson) in European Sports Management Quarterly, June 2003.

'France and the English Other: The Mediation of National Identities in Post-war Football Journalism' (with David Hand) in The Web Journal of French Media Studies, Vol. 4, no. 1 (2002)

Football, Europe and the Press: Imagined Identities? Frank Cass, 2002 (with David Hand) [ISBN 0 7146 4957 0 cloth, 0 7146 8017 6 paper] author's note

'Fútbol, Politicians and the People: Populism and Politics in Argentina' (with Vic Duke) in J.A. Mangan and L.P. Da Costa (eds) Sport in Latin American Society, London, Frank Cass, 2001 abstract

'Sitting Pretty' (with Cathy Long) in J. Williams, S. Hopkins & C. Long (eds) Passing Rhythms, London: Berg, 2001

'Lads will be Lads: Gender and Nationalism in English Football' in M. Perryman (ed.) The Ingerland Factor: Home Truths from Football, London: Mainstream, 2000

'Playing the Identity Card: Stereotypes in European Football' (with David Hand and Ralf Jeutter) in Soccer & Society, Vol. 1, no. 2, 2000

'Football and Fandom in Spain' in B. Jordan and R. Morgan-Tamasunas (eds) Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies, London: Arnold, 1999

'Fuori e a Domicilio: I Tifosi di Liverpool' in De Biasi (ed.) You'll Never Walk Alone, Milan: Shake Publishers, 1998

'National Obsessions and Identities in Football Match Reports' (with David Hand and Ralf Jeutter) in A. Brown (ed.) Fanatics! Power, Identity and Fandom in Football, London: Routledge, 1998

'Real Madrid v Barcelona: the State Against the Nation? The Changing Role of Football in Spain' in International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 10, no. 1, 1997, pp. 33-43 abstract

Football, Nationality and the State (with Vic Duke), London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996

'Football Spectator Behaviour in Argentina: a Case of Separate Evolution' (with Vic Duke), Sociological Review, Vol. 44, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 272-293 abstract

Football after Taylor (with M. Curran, L. Redmond and A. Sheahan), Leicester: Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research, 1991

 

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