Mark Doidge is Lecturer in Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK

Few football books manage to provide the breadth and depth of insight with the very obvious passion for the game that Mark Doidge combines in writing Football Italia. From the country of Gramsci and Mussolini it is no surprise that Italian football also is a game of extremes. What Doidge manages to explain is how a nation’s football can never be divorced from how a national culture has been shaped too.

• 1. Introduction - Globalisation and Italian Football2. Globalisation and Community3. Modernity and Deregulation in Italy4. Deregulation and Crisis in Italian football5. The Tempest: A Twenty-First Century of Scandal6. The Matchday Experience: Italian Stadiums7. The Matchday Experience: Italian Forces of Order8. The Matchday Performance: Football Fandom in Italy9. The Livornesi Performance: The Local and the Political10. The Social Capital of Italian Supporters' Clubs11. Conclusion: 'Year Zero?

Mark Doidge is Lecturer in Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK

Few football books manage to provide the breadth and depth of insight with the very obvious passion for the game that Mark Doidge combines in writing Football Italia. From the country of Gramsci and Mussolini it is no surprise that Italian football also is a game of extremes. What Doidge manages to explain is how a nation’s football can never be divorced from how a national culture has been shaped too.

• 1. Introduction - Globalisation and Italian Football2. Globalisation and Community3. Modernity and Deregulation in Italy4. Deregulation and Crisis in Italian football5. The Tempest: A Twenty-First Century of Scandal6. The Matchday Experience: Italian Stadiums7. The Matchday Experience: Italian Forces of Order8. The Matchday Performance: Football Fandom in Italy9. The Livornesi Performance: The Local and the Political10. The Social Capital of Italian Supporters' Clubs11. Conclusion: 'Year Zero?

Mark Doidge is Lecturer in Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK

Few football books manage to provide the breadth and depth of insight with the very obvious passion for the game that Mark Doidge combines in writing Football Italia. From the country of Gramsci and Mussolini it is no surprise that Italian football also is a game of extremes. What Doidge manages to explain is how a nation’s football can never be divorced from how a national culture has been shaped too.

• 1. Introduction - Globalisation and Italian Football2. Globalisation and Community3. Modernity and Deregulation in Italy4. Deregulation and Crisis in Italian football5. The Tempest: A Twenty-First Century of Scandal6. The Matchday Experience: Italian Stadiums7. The Matchday Experience: Italian Forces of Order8. The Matchday Performance: Football Fandom in Italy9. The Livornesi Performance: The Local and the Political10. The Social Capital of Italian Supporters' Clubs11. Conclusion: 'Year Zero?