Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton. Expert on FIFA and the history and politics of sport spectacle.
Booklist
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2021)
Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football: An Englishman Abroad (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)
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)
FIFA: 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)