Postmaterial Britishness: Playing Football Like a Gentleman

In the following, I will analyse the relation between football and nationality. Many other important aspects of football – class, gender, imperialism, economics, mass media etc. – will only be treated peripherally, and in regard to this central question. To my mind, recent developments on the level of club football have caused a dramatic change in the relation between national identity and football, pushing football into a globalised, transcultural era (cf. Schulze-­Engler 2006: 129–130). Football will be analysed as part of popular culture, constantly debated in various spheres of society. Following this, I will give an overview of the traditional relationship between modern football and national identity. Then, I will come to the central topic of this text: Arsenal FC's completely non­‐English 'English' football team and its echo in the media and among fans. This is followed by an attempt to reveal a new notion of the relation between individuals and national identity as it may be seen to emerge in the discussions surrounding the case of Arsenal. Finally, this development is, very briefly, embedded into a wider account of societal developmen

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