Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton. Expert on FIFA and the history and politics of sport spectacle.
Booklist
Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with Enemies (Routledge, 2018)Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting “Badfellas”, the Book FIFA Tried to Ban (Routledge, 2017)Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, Power and Possibilities (Routledge, 2017)The Olympic Legacy: Social Scientific Explorations (Routledge, 2016)IFA: The Men, the Myths and the Money (Routledge, 2014)Understanding Sport: A socio-cultural analysis (Routledge, 2013)Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation (Routledge, 2012)Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010 (Routledge, 2011)World Atlas of Sport, The (Myriad Editions/New Internationalist, 2011)A Dictionary Of Sports Studies (Oxford Paperback Reference) (Oxford University Press, 2010)The Sport Studies Reader (Routledge, 2007)German Football: History, Culture, Society (Routledge, 2006)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)The Bountiful Game?: Football Identities And Finances (Meyer & Meyer, 2005)Sport and Leisure Cultures (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)Badfellas (Mainstream Publishing Company, 2003)Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport (Routledge, 2002)Great Balls of Fire: How Big Money is Hijacking World Football (Mainstream Publishing Company, 1999)The Game’s Up (Ashgate/Arena, 1999)FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples’ Game? (Polity Press, 1998)Ethics, Sport and Leisure (Meyer & Meyer, 1997)Sociology of Leisure (E & FN Spon, 1995)Hosts and Champions (Ashgate/Arena, 1994)Consumption, Identity and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure (Routledge, 1990)Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1987)Off the Ball (Pluto Press, 1986)Five-Ring Circus (Pluto Press, 1984)