Academic Articles & Chapters

A Selection of Articles

2017 “What works for wellbeing in culture and sport? Report of a Delphi process to support coproduction and establish principles and parameters of an evidence review”, with 12 co-authors, Perspectives in Public Health, 137/5, pp. 281-288. ISSN 1757-9139.

2016 “Strenuous competition on the field of play, diplomacy off it: The 1908 London Olympics, Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur Balfour, and transatlantic relations”, with J. Simon Rofe, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 15/1, pp. 60-79.

2016 “Sport: Diplomatic tool or stirrer of troubled waters?”, (Sports diplomacy in the 21^st Century), Diplomatist Annual Edition 2016, India, pp. 84-88.

2014 “The Supreme Leader sails on: Leadership, ethics and governance in FIFA”, Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 17/9, pp. 1155-1169. ISSN 1743-0437.

2011 “Sport in modern European history: Trajectories, constellations, conjunctures”, with Christopher Young, Journal of Historical Sociology, 24/4, pp. 409-427. ISSN 1467-6443.

2011 “Towards a new history of European sport”, with Christopher Young, European Review, 19/4, pp. 487-507. ISSN 1062-7987.

2010 “Sport in history: Challenging the communis opinio”, with Christopher Young, Journal of Sport History, 37/1, pp. 5-17. ISSN 0094-1700.

2010 “Sport in modern Europe”, with Christopher Young and Richard Holt, Journal of Sport History, 37/1, pp. 1-4. ISSN 0094-1700.

2008 “Taking the (Sea)biscuit?: Sensory and autobiographical responses to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s In praise of athletic beauty”, Sport in History, 28/1, pp. 151-169. ISSN 1746 0271.

2008 “Preface to Special Issue ‘The Aesthetics of Sport’: Responses to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s In praise of athletic beauty”, with Christopher Young, Sport in History, 28/1, pp. 1-4. ISSN 1746 0271.

2007 “Lord, don’t stop the Carnival: Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup”, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 31/3, pp. 259-282. ISSN 1552-7638.

2007 “Stories from Planet Football and Sportsworld: Source relations and collusion in sport journalism”,  with John Sugden,  Journalism Practice, 1/1, pp. 44-61. ISSN 1751-2794.

2006 “Bannister’s feat in austere times: The construction and reproduction of a sporting trope”, Sport in History, 26/2, pp. 215-234. ISSN 1746-0271.

2006 “Leisure Studies: Progress, phases and possibilities: An interview with Alan Tomlinson”, interviewed by David Andrews, Leisure Studies, 25/3, pp. 257-273. ISSN 1466-4496.

2005 “Picturing the Winter Olympics: The opening ceremonies of Nagano (Japan) 1988 and Salt Lake City (USA) 2002”, Tourism, Culture & Communication, 5/2, pp. 83-92. ISSN 1098-304X.

2003 “Speculations on the body and sporting spaces: The cultural significance of sport performance”, American Behavioral Scientist, 46/11, pp. 1,577-1,587. ISSN 0002-7642.

2003 “Mapping sport space”, with Andrei Markovits and Christopher Young, American Behavioral Scientist, 46/11, pp. 1,463-1,475. ISSN 0002-7642.

2001 “Argentina versus England at France ’98: Narratives of nation and the mythologizing of the popular”, with Pablo Alabarces and Christopher Young, Media Culture & Society, 23/5, pp. 565-584. ISSN 0163-4437.

2000 “Welcome to FIFAland: FIFA and the men who made it”, Soccer and Society, 1/1, pp. 55-71. ISSN 1368-9789.

2000 “David Storey’s and Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life. Reflections on the aestheticisation of the sporting body”, Diegesis – Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, Issue 4 (Summer), pp. 6-13.

2000 “Football, ressentiment and resistance in the break-up of the former Soviet Union”, with John Sugden, Culture, Sport Society, 3/2, pp. 89-108. ISSN 0163-4437.

1999 “Digging the dirt and staying clean – Retrieving the investigative tradition for a critical sociology of sport”, with John Sugden, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 34/4, 385-397. ISSN 10 12 6902.

1999  “Riefenstahl’s Olympia: Ideology and aesthetics in the shaping of the Aryan athletic body”, with Graham McFee, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 16/2, pp. 86-ISSN 0952-3367. Also published in J.A. Mangan [Ed.], Shaping the Superman – Fascist body as political icon, Aryan fascism, London, Frank Cass, pp. 86-106. ISBN 0 7146 4954 6.

1998 “Domination, negotiation and resistance in sports cultures”, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 22/3, pp. 235-240. ISSN 0193-7325.

1998 “The changing gender order in sport? The case of windsurfing subcultures”, with Belinda Wheaton, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 22/3, pp. 252-274. ISSN 0193-7325. Reprinted in Andrew Yiannakis and Merrill Melnick [Eds.], Sport sociology – Contemporary themes (5^th. Edition), Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall-Hunt, January 2000.

1998 “Power and resistance in the governance of world football: Theorizing FIFA’s transnational impact”, with John Sugden, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 22/3, pp. 299-ISSN 0193-7325.

1997 “Global power struggles in world football: FIFA and UEFA, 1954-74, and their legacy”, with John Sugden, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 14/2, pp. 1-25. ISSN 0952-3367.

1997  “Male coach/female athlete relations: Gender and power relations in competitive sport”, with Ilkay Yorganci, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 21/2, pp. 134-155. ISSN 0193-7325.

1996 “Olympic spectacles: Opening ceremonies and some paradoxes of globalization”, Media, Culture & Society, 18/4, pp. 583-602. ISSN 0163-4437.

1996 “What’s left when the circus leaves town? An evaluation of the 1994 USA World Cup”, with John Sugden, Sociology of Sport Journal, 13/3, pp. 236-254. ISSN 0741-1235.

1993 “Cultures of commitment in leisure: Notes towards the understanding of a serious legacy”, World Leisure Recreation Association Journal, 35/1, pp. 6–9.

1992  “Whose game is it anyway? The cultural analysis of sport and media consumption”, Innovation in Social Science Research, 5/4, pp. 27–42.  ISSN 1012-8050.

1992  “Shifting patterns of working-class leisure — The case of knur and spell”, Sociology of Sport Journal, 9/2, pp. 192–206.  ISSN 0741-1235.

1992 “Being there — Cultural theory and the sociological study of sport”, with John Hargreaves, Sociology of Sport Journal, 9/2, pp. 207–219. ISSN 0741-1235.

1990  “The Making and Remaking of White Lightning in Cuba: Politics, sport and physical education thirty years after the revolution”, with John Sugden and Eamonn McCartan, Arena Review, 14/1, pp. 101–109. ISSN 0735-1267. Reprinted in Andrew Yiannakis, Thomas McIntyre and Merrill Melnick [Eds.], Sport sociology: Contemporary themes, Kendall Hunt, ISBN 0-8403-9612-0.

1989  “Whose side are they on? Leisure Studies and Cultural Studies in Britain”, Leisure Studies, 8/2, pp. 97–106. ISSN 0261-4367.

1988 “Images of sport: Situating Chariots of Fire”, British Society of Sports History Bulletin, No. 8, pp. 27–41. [Now Sport in History].

1988 “The future of the Olympics”, British Journal of Physical Education, 19/4 and 5, pp. 192–193. ISSN 0954-6693.

1986 “American Tough Guys”, in Over Here: an American Studies Journal, 6, pp. 19–23.

1986 “Reflections on Football in Brazil: A review and critique of Janet Lever’s Soccer Madness”, with John Humphrey, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 5/1, pp. 101–108. ISSN 0261-3050.

1982 “Getting over America: The quest for unity in American Studies”, Over Here: An American Studies Journal, 2, pp. 28–39.

A Selection of Chapters

2018 “Diplomatic actors in the world of football: Individuals, institutions, ideologies”, in J. Simon Rofe [Ed.], Sport and diplomacy: Games within games, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp. 74-108 (forthcoming).

2018 “FIFA: Ethics, voice and organizational power plays”, in Daniel Burdsey, Thomas Carter, and Mark Doidge [Eds.], Transforming sport: Knowledges, practices, structures, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 121-135. ISBN 978-1-138-05224-6, hbk. Also in ebk.

2017 “’For the Game. For the World’? The world governing body’s escalating crisis of credibility”, in Alan Bairner, John Kelly and Jung Woo Lee [Eds.], Routledge handbook of sport and politics, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 251-265. ISBN 978-1-138-79254-8, hbk. Also in ebk.

2017 “28 Olympic summers: Historical and methodological reflections on understanding the Olympic mega-event”, in Lawrence A. Wenner and Andrew C. Billings [Eds.], Sport, media and mega-events, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 51-68. ISBN 978-1-138-93038-4, hbk. Also in pbk and ebk.

2016 “Stanley Rous, FIFA and the making of a World Cup”, in Mark Perryman [Ed.],1966 and Not All That, London, Repeater Books, pp. 177-196. ISBN 978-1-910924-08-2. Also in ebook.

2016  “Twitter and the rolling-news agenda on sports channels”, in Stephen Cushion and Richard Sambrook [Eds.], The future of 24-hour news: New directions, new challenges, New York, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., pp. 213-226. ISBN 978-1-4331-3046-5, paperback. Also in hardcover and e-book.

2014  “Seizing the Olympic platform: 6.6 million and counting”, in Vassil Girginov [Ed.], Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Volume Two: Celebrating the Games, London, Routledge, pp. 239-251. ISBN 97804 1567 1927 hbk. Also in ebk.

2014 “FIFA: Beginnings, tensions, trajectories”, in Kay Schiller and Stefan Rinke [Eds.], The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010: Politics, commerce, spectacle and identities, Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag , pp. 30-46. ISBN 978-3-8353-1457-3.

2013 “The best Olympics never”, in Mark Perryman [Ed.], London 2012: How was it for us?, London, Lawrence & Wishart, pp. 47-61. ISBN 978-1-907-10379-7 pbk.

2013 “’And did those feet …’: Introduction”, in Rob Steen, Jed Novick and Huw Richards [Eds.], The Cambridge companion to football, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-9. ISBN 978-1-107-61369-0 pbk. Also in hbk.

2012 “The making – and the unmaking? – of the Olympic corporate class”, in Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg [Eds.], The Palgrave handbook of Olympic studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-247. ISBN 978-0-230-24653-9 hbk.

2012 “Watching the Olympics: the critical social scientific gaze”, with John Sugden, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Watching the Olympics: Politics, power and representation, London, Routledge, pp. xi-xiii. ISBN 978 0 415 57833 2 pbk.

2012 “Lording it: London and the getting of the Games”, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Watching the Olympics: Politics, power and representation, London, Routledge, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978 0 415 57833 2 pbk.

2012 “Afterword. ‘No other anything … ‘: The Olympic Games yeaterday and today”, with John Sugden, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Watching the Olympics: Politics, power and representation, London, Routledge, pp. 242-251. ISBN 978 0 415 57833 2 pbk.

2011 “Introduction: Sport in Europe 1950-2010 – Transformation and trends”, with Richard Holt and Christopher Young, in Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young and Richard Holt [Eds.], Sport and the transformation of modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010, London, Routledge, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978 0 415 85794.

2010  “What Beckham had for breakfast: The rolling menu of 24/7 sports news”, with John Sugden, in Stephen Cushion and Justin Lewis [Eds.], The rise of 24-hour news television: Global perspectives, Oxford, Peter Lang, pp. 151-166. ISBN 978 1 4331 0776 4.

2008 “Sport journalism: Persistent themes and changing times”, with John Sugden, in Bob Franklin [Ed.], Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism, London, Routledge, pp. 153-161. ISBN 0415425557.

2008  “Olympic values, Beijing’s Olympic Games and the universal market”, in Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan [Eds.], Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China, Ann Arbor/Michigan, The University of Michigan Press, pp. 67-85. ISBN 047205032X.

2007  “Sport and social class”, in George Ritzer [Ed.], The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology SE-ST, volume 9, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 4,695-4,699. ISBN-13 978-1-4051-2433-1.

2007 “A time for heroes? The nature of the heroic in past and present, with particular reference to selected cases from football (soccer)”, with Christopher Young, in Thomas Schierl [Ed.], Prominenz in den medien. Zur genese und verwertung von prominenten in sport, wirtschaft und kultur. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Köln/Deutschland, pp. 304-329. ISBN 3938258616.

2006  “Germany 1974: On the eve of the goldrush”, in Alan Tomlinson and Christopher     Young [Eds.], German football: History, culture, society, London, Routledge, pp. 204-224. ISBN 0-415-35196-0.

2006  “Culture, politics and spectacle  in the global sports event – An introduction”, with Christopher Young, in Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young [Eds.], National identity and global sports events: Culture, politics and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup, London, Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 0-7914-6615-9.

2006  “Los Angeles 1984 and 1932: Commercializing the American dream”, in Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young [Eds.], National identity and global sports events: Culture, politics and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup, Albany NY, State University of New York Press, pp. 1-14. ISBN 0-7914-6615-9.

2005  “Olympic survivals: The Olympic Games as a global phenomenon”, in Lincoln Allison [Ed.], The global politics of sport: The role of global institutions in sport, London Routledge, pp. 46-62. ISBN 0-415-34602-9.

2005  “Not for the good of the game: Crisis and credibility in the governance of world football”, with John Sugden, in Lincoln Allison [Ed.], The global politics of sport: The role of global institutions in sport, London Routledge, pp. 26-45. ISBN 0-415-34602-9.

2005  “The commercialization of the Olympics: Cities, corporations, and the Olympic commodity”, in Kevin Young and Kevin Wamsley [Eds.], Global Olympics: Historical and sociological studies of the modern Games, Oxford, Elsevier, pp. 179-200. ISBN 0 7623 1181 9.

2005  “The making of the global sports economy: ISL, adidas and the rise of the corporate player in sport”, in C.L. Cole, David L. Andrews and Michael L. Silk [Eds.], Sport and corporate nationalisms, Oxford, Berg, pp.35-65. ISBN 185973799-4.

2004  “Parvenu United: Local rivalries, smalltown boys and city slickers”, in David L. Andrews [Ed.], Manchester United – A thematic study, London, Routledge, pp. 203-221. ISBN 0-415-33334-2.

2004  “The Disneyfication of the Olympics: Theme parks and freak-shows of the body”, in John Bale and Metta Krogh Christensen [Eds.], Post-Olympism? Questioning sport in the twenty-first century, Oxford, Berg, pp. 147-63. ISBN 1 85973 714 5.

2004  “Pierre Bourdieu and the sociological study of sport sport”, in Richard Giulianotti [Ed.], Sport and modern social theorists, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-172. ISBN 0-333-80079-6.

2003  “Football and FIFA in the post-colonial world”, with John Sugden, in John Bale and Mike Cronin [Eds.], Sport and post-colonialism, Oxford, Berg, pp. 175-96. ISBN 1 85973 5444.

2003 “Developing the cultural agenda: The socio-spatial dimensions of the regional cultural strategies in England”, with Neil Ravenscroft, in Robert Snape, Edwin Thwaites and Christine Williams [Eds.], Access and inclusion in leisure and tourism, Eastbourne, Leisure Studies Association Publication Number 81, pp. 3-21. ISBN 0 906337 92 5.

2002  “International power struggles in the governance of world football – The 2002 and 2006 World Cup bidding wars”, with John Sugden, in John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter [Eds.], Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, London, Routledge, pp. 56-70. ISBN 0-415-27563-6.

2002  “Theory and method for a critical sociology of sport”, with John Sugden, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Power games: A critical sociology of sport, London, Routledge, pp. 3-21. ISBN 0-415-25101-X.

2002  “Theorising spectacle: Beyond Debord”, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Power games: A critical sociology of sport, London, Routledge, pp. 44-60. ISBN 0-415-25101-X.

2004  “Wilf Mannion”, in Brian Harrison [Ed.], New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press.  ASIN: B000Y3LCFA.

2001  “Golden goals to gold medals: Football’s Olympian lessons”, in Mark Perryman [Ed.], Hooligan wars – Causes and effects of football violence, Edinburgh, Mainstream, pp. 216-228. ISBN 1-84018-421-3.

2001  “Sport, leisure and style”, in David Morley and Kevin Robbins [Eds.], British cultural studies: An introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 399-415. ISBN 0-19-874206-1.

2000  “From the field: Sydney 2000  and an Olympics research agenda”, in Marc Keech and Graham McFee [Eds.], Issues and Values in Sport and Leisure Cultures, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer, pp. 207-227 . ISBN 1 84126 055 X.

2000  “Theorizing sport, status and social class”, with John Sugden, in Jay Coakley and Eric Dunning [Eds.], Handbook of sports studies, London, Sage, pp. 309-321. ISBN 0-8039-7552-X.

2000  “Golden boys and golden memories: Fiction, ideology and reality in Roy of the Rovers and the death of the hero”, with Christopher Young, in Dudley Jones and Tony Watkins [Eds.], A necessary fantasy? The heroic figure in children’s popular culture, New York, Garland Press, pp. 177-205. ISBN 0-8153-1844-8.

2000  “Carrying the torch for whom? Symbolic power and Olympic ceremony”, in Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith [Eds.], The Olympics at the millennium: Power, politics and the games, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, pp. 167-181. ISBN 0-8135-2820-8.

2000 “From athleticism to commercialism: Engaging with the future”, in Kathy Armour and Robyn Jones [Eds.], Sociology of sport: Theory and practice, Harlow: Longman, pp. 99-113. ISBN 0-582-41912-3.

1998  “Sport, cultural diversity and national identity: The Swiss case”, in Alan Bairner and John Sugden [Eds.], Sport in divided societies, CSRC Edition 4: Aachen. Meyer & Meyer, pp. 113-137. ISBN 3-89124-445-2.

1998  “FIFA versus UEFA in the struggle for the control of world football”, with John Sugden and Paul Darby, in Adam Brown [Ed.], Fanatics! Power, identity and fandom in football, London, Routledge, pp. 11-31. ISBN 0-415-18104-6.

1998  “Sport, politics and identities: Football cultures in comparative perspective”, with John Sugden, in Maurice Roche [Ed.], Sport, popular culture and identity, CSRC Edition 5, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer, pp. 169-192. ISBN 3-89124-468-1.

1996 “Football, xenophobia and racism(s) – Europe and the old England”, with Scott Fleming, in Udo Merkel and Walter Tokarski [Eds.], Racism and xenophobia in European football, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer, pp. 79-100. ISBN 3 89124343 X.

1996 “Sports movies and the study of sport – comments on teaching and the hermeneutic”, in Jean O’Neill, Elizabeth Murdoch and Scott Fleming [Eds.], Physical education, sport and leisure, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 7, University of Brighton, pp. 41-56. ISBN 1871-996-29-9.

1996  “Gender, consumption and the ‘popular media’ interests of 14/15 year olds”, with Gill Lines, in Jean O’Neill, Elizabeth Murdoch and Scott Fleming [Eds.],  Physical education, sport and leisure, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 7, University of Brighton, pp. 57-76. ISBN 1871-996-29-9.

1996  “Consumer culture and the aura of the commodity”, in Paul Maris and Sue Thornham [Eds.], Media studies – a reader, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 510-514. ISBN 0 74486 0778 1.

1996  “The making and remaking of White Lightning in Cuba: Politics, sport and physical education thirty years after the revolution”, with John Sugden and Eamonn McCartan, in Michael Malec [Ed.], The social role of sport in Caribbean  societies, Luxembourg, Gordon and Breach, pp. 211-228. ISBN 2-884-491-34-1.

1995  “Flattery and betrayal:  Observations on oral and qualitative accounts”, in Alan Tomlinson and Scott Fleming [Eds.], Ethics, sport and leisure:  Crises and critiques, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 5, University of Brighton, pp.245-264.  ISBN 1-871-966-41-8. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-441-X.

1995  “Ethics, sport and leisure:  prevalent themes”, in Alan Tomlinson and Scott Fleming [Eds.], Ethics, sport and leisure:  Crises and critiques, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 5, University of Brighton, pp. ix-xiv.  ISBN 1871-966-41-8. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-441-X.

1995  “An interview with Peter Keen”, with Scott Fleming, in Alan Tomlinson and Scott Fleming [Eds.], Ethics, sport and leisure: Crises and critiques, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 5, University of Brighton, pp. 37-54.  ISBN 1871- 966-41-8. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-441-X.

1995  “Introduction”, with Sue Mason-Cox, to Alan Tomlinson [Ed.], Gender, sport and leisure: Continuities and challenges, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 4, University of Brighton, pp.1-20.  ISBN  1871-966-36-1. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-443-6.

1995  “Ideologies of physicality, masculinity and femininity:  Comments on Roy of the Rovers and the women’s fitness boom”, in Alan Tomlinson [Ed.], Gender, sport and leisure:  Continuities and challenges, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 4, University of Brighton, pp. 135-172.  ISBN  1871-966-36-1. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-443-6.

1994  “Soccer culture, national identity and the World Cup”, with John Sugden, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Hosts and champions: Soccer cultures, national identities and the USA World Cup,  Aldershot, Arena/Ashgate, pp. 3–12.  ISBN 1-85742-227-9.

1994  “FIFA and the World Cup: The expanding football family”, in John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Hosts and champions:  Soccer cultures, national identities and the USA World Cup, Aldershot, Arena/Ashgate, pp. 13–33.  ISBN 1-85742-227-9.

1994  “Sport and leisure”, with Richard Holt, in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon [Eds.], The Major Effect, London, Macmillan, pp. 444–458. ISBN-0-333-622766.

1993  “Interrogating the policy text”, in Graham McFee and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Education, sport and leisure: Connections and controversies, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 3, University of Brighton, pp. 85–92.  ISBN 1-871-966-26-4. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-442-8.

1993  “Curriculum, change and critique: Themes in the study of education, sport and leisure”, with Graham McFee, in Graham McFee and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Education, sport and leisure: Connections and controversies, Chelsea School Research Centre Topic Report 3, University of Brighton, pp. 3–14.  ISBN 1-871-966-264. Reissued by Meyer & Meyer, 1997, ISBN 3-89124-442-8.

1992  “Homeward bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism”, with Deborah Philips, in Dominic Strinati and Stephen Wagg [Eds.], Come on down: Popular media culture in post-war Britain, London, Routledge, pp. 9–45.  ISBN 0-415-06326-4.

1992  “Olympische spiele: Sport, spectakel and konsum”, in (and translated by) Roman Horak and Otto Penz [Eds.], Sport: Kult & kommerz, Vienna, Verlag für Gesellschaft-critik, pp. 59–71.  ISBN 3-85115-151-8.

1991  “North and South: the rivalry of the Football League and the Football Association”, in John Williams and Stephen Wagg [Eds.], British football and social change: Getting into Europe, Leicester, Leicester University Press, pp. 25–47.  ISBN 0-7185-1371-1.

1990  “Consumer culture and the aura of the commodity”, in Alan Tomlinson [Ed.], Consumption, identity and style: Marketing, meanings and the packaging of pleasure, London, Routledge, pp. 1–38. ISBN 0-415-01150-7.

1990  “Home fixtures: Doing-it-yourself in a privatized world”, in Alan Tomlinson [Ed.], Consumption, identity and style: Marketing, meanings and the packaging of pleasure, London, Routledge, pp. 57–73.  ISBN 0-415-01150-7.

1990  “Holidays for all”, with Helen Walker, in Alan Tomlinson [Ed.], Consumption, identity and style: Marketing, meanings and the packaging of pleasure, London: Routledge, pp. 221–241. ISBN 0-415-01150-7.

1988  “Good times, bad times and the politics of leisure: Working-class culture in the 1930s in a small Northern English working class community”, in Hart Cantelon and Robert Hollands [Eds.], Leisure, sport and working-class cultures: Theory and history, Toronto, Garamond Press, pp. 41–64. ISBN 0-920-05958-9.

1987  “Introduction: The sociological analysis of sport and leisure”, with John Horne and David Jary, in  John Horne, David Jary and Alan Tomlinson [Eds.], Sport, leisure and social relations, Sociological Review Monograph No. 33, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1–8. ISBN 0-904425-11-8.

1986  “Playing away from home: Leisure, access and exclusion”, in Peter Golding [Ed.], Excluding the poor, London, Child Poverty Action Group, pp. 43–54. ISBN 0 903963 97 3.

1986  “Going global: The FIFA story”, in Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel [Eds.], Off the ball — The football World Cup, London, Pluto Press, pp. 83–98. ISBN 0-7453 01223.

1986  “Introduction”, with Garry Whannel, in Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel [Eds.], Off the ball —The football World Cup, London, Pluto Press, pp. 1–3. ISBN 0-7453 01223.

1986  “From player to manager: An interview with Steve Coppell”, in Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel [Eds.], Off the ball — The football World Cup, London, Pluto Press, pp. 158–171. ISBN 0-7453 01223.

1984  “De Coubertin and the modern Olympic Games”, in Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel [Eds.], Five-ring circus: Money, power and politics at the Olympic Games, London, Pluto Press, pp. 84–97. ISBN 0-86104-769-9.

1984  “Introduction”, with Garry Whannel, to Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel [Eds.], Five-ring circus: Money, power and politics at the Olympic Games, London, Pluto Press, pp. v–x. ISBN 0-86104-769-9.

1983    “The sociological imagination, the new journalism and sport”, in Nancy Theberge and Peter Donnelly [Eds.], Sport and the sociological imagination, Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Press, pp. 21–39. ISBN 0-912646-83-7.