Booklist

What Is FIFA For? – (Bristol University Press, 2026)
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2021)
Review from Sport in Society.
Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football: An Englishman Abroad (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)

Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with Enemies (Routledge, 2018)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting “Badfellas”, the Book FIFA Tried to Ban (Routledge, 2017)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, Power and Possibilities (Routledge, 2017)

Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
The Olympic Legacy: Social Scientific Explorations (Routledge, 2016)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
FIFA: The Men, the Myths and the Money (Routledge, 2014)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Understanding Sport: A socio-cultural analysis (Routledge, 2013)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation (Routledge, 2012)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010 (Routledge, 2011)

Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation (Routledge, 2012)
Oxford Sports Studies, Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
A Dictionary Of Sports Studies (Oxford Paperback Reference) (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
The Sport Studies Reader (Routledge, 2007)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
German Football: History, Culture, Society (Routledge, 2006)

Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
National Identity And Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics, And Spectacle in the Olympics And the Football World Cup (State University of New York Press, 2006)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
The Bountiful Game?: Football Identities And Finances (Meyer & Meyer, 2005)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Sport and Leisure Cultures (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Badfellas (Mainstream Publishing Company, 2003)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport (Routledge, 2002)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Great Balls of Fire: How Big Money is Hijacking World Football (Mainstream Publishing Company, 1999)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
The Game’s Up (Ashgate/Arena, 1999)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples’ Game? (Polity Press, 1998)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Ethics, Sport and Leisure (Meyer & Meyer, 1997)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Sociology of Leisure (E & FN Spon, 1995)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Hosts and Champions (Ashgate/Arena, 1994)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Consumption, Identity and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure (Routledge, 1990)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1987)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Off the Ball (Pluto Press, 1986)
Professor Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Five-Ring Circus (Pluto Press, 1984)

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