Football Manager A History

Name: Football Manager A History
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ISBN: 9780415375399

ISBN-10: 0415375398

ISBN-13: 9780415375399

Edition: 2006

Authors: Neil Carter, Boria Majumdar, J. A. Mangan

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Football managers are at the center of today's commercially-driven football world, scrutinized, celebrated and under pressure as never before. This book is the first in-depth history of the role of the manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century. Using original source materials, the book traces the changing character and function of the football manager, covering: - the origins of football management - club secretaries and early pioneers - the impact of post-war social change - the advent of the football business - television and the new commercialism -…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Neil Carter is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture. He has published widely in the history of sport, and is the author of The Football Manager: A History (Routledge, 2006).




The origins of football management



The pioneers, 1880-1914



'Organizing victory' : Herbert Chapman and football management modernity



The emergence of the football manager, 1918-39



The modernization of football management, 1945-70



Managers in the television age, 1970-92



The 'postmodern' football manager?



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