People's History of Football

Mickaël Correia is a journalist at Mediapart. He is the author of several books, and his work focuses on social and ecological struggles as well as working-class culture. He has written for Le Monde Diplomatique, Le Canard Enchaîné and La Revue du Crieur. His passion for football began when he was 4, with kickabouts on the streets of Roubaix.Fionn Petch is a Scottish translator with a doctorate in philosophy from the National University of Mexico. As a translator, he has translated fiction, poetry, drama and children's books. He also works on books and exhibition catalogues on art and architecture. Among his noted translations are A Straggly Smile by Vanessa Saint Cyr, The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros and Fireflies by Luis Sagasti.

'A fascinating journey through the game's history. While so much of today's attention is on the highest end of the sport- the money and the glory associated with today's biggest stars- football has always been about so much more: a vehicle of expression, of example and of change. A People's History of Football tells the stories of how, why and when.'

• Introduction: Football grounds, grounds of strugglePart I: Defend: Working class resistance to the bourgeois order1. Kicking off: Riotous balls and social control2. Normalising bodies, shaping minds: The birth of an industrial sport3. The people's game: Football as a cultural trait of the working class4. The Munitionnettes: The saga of the first women football players in Britain5. Class against class: Working-class football in France, an extension of the field of strugglePart II: Attack: Assault on dictatorships6. 'A small way of saying "no"': Italy, the USSR, Spain: stadiums under totalitarian regimes7. Ball at the feet against the iron fist: Football's resistance to Nazi domination8. 'Corinthian democracy': Football and self-organisation against the Brazilian dictatorship9. On the front line, Tahrir Square: Ultras Ahlawy fans at the heart of the 2011 revolution in EgyptPart III: Dribble: Outmanoeuvring colonialism 10. The Algerian Independence Eleven: A liberation struggle in football boots11. When Palestine occupies the pitch: Football as a political weapon in the hands of the Palestinians12. Dribbling the ball, a decolonial art: Afro-Brazilian identities and indigenous resistance in football13. Sending colonialism off: Football and emancipation struggles in sub-Saharan AfricaPart IV: Support: Collective passions and popular cultures14. 'You'll Never Walk Alone': Hooliganism and subcultures in British stands15. The twelfth man: The Italian ultras movement: from political militancy to supporter autonomy16. 'God and the devil': Maradona, between popular passion and fan cult17. 'We are lovers, not fighters': Istanbul's ultras and Turkish powerPart V: Outflank: Facing the football industry: fight and reinvent18. Football for footballers!: From May'68 to the fans' revolt19. Tackling sexism: Women's football against the French sporting patriarchy20. "Here it's about punk football": Fan-owned clubs in England21. Play on the left wing: Hamburg’s FC Sankt Pauli or the pirates of the football business22. Wild balls, balls on the margins: Street football wrong-foots at the institutional gamePostscript to the English editionEndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndex