“Soccer” for the US reader. Ironically, and despite what is commonly thought, “soccer” was originally a British word, a shortening of “association football” via the habit of linguistic shortening that was trending around Cambridge and Oxford during the late nineteenth century.
Gabriel Kuhn, Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics (PM Press, 2019), 59.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Autonomedia, 2013).
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Chris Lee, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism (Pitch Publishing, 2022).
For more on this see Minor Compositions podcast episode 19, “Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football,” which features an in-depth discussion with academy coach Jamie Hamilton.
For an explanation of this position, see →.
Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945), ed. Przemysław Strożek and Andreas Kramer (Brill, 2022).
Przemysław Strożek, Picturing the Workers’ Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920–1932 (Routledge, 2023).
Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Orion Books, 2014).
Jonathan Wilson, The Names Heard Long Ago (Blink Publishing, 2019).
Psychotherapy and Materialism: Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury, ed. Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman (ICI Berlin Press, 2024).
Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Tobias Jones, Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football (Head of Zeus, 2019).
Paolo Sollier, Kicks, Spits, and Headers: The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer (Autonomedia, 2022).
Ruud Gullit, How to Watch Football (Viking, 2016).
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Carles Vinas and Natxo Parra, St Pauli: Another Football is Possible (Pluto Press, 2019).
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Will Simpson and Malcolm McMahon, Freedom Through Football: The Story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls: Inside Britain’s Most Intrepid Sports Club (Tangent Books, 2012).
For a history of football in relation to Palestine see Nicholas Blincoe, More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine (Constable, 2019).
