Face to Face

Introduction: rivalries in world soccer

Kausik Bandyopadhyay

1. Up'Ards, Down'Ards and derbies: figurational reflections on intense enmity in pre-modern English football

Graham Curry

2. The 'talk o' the toon'? An examination of the Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian football rivalry in Edinburgh, Scotland

John Kelly and Alan Bairner

3. The 'Auld Enemy'? Exploring the England vs. Scotland rivalry from the perspective of soccer fans

Stuart Whigham and Tom Gibbons

4. 'They're just not my team': the issue of player allegiances within Irish football, 2007-2012

Conor Murray and David Hassan

5. Laudrup or Ibrahimovic: who is the best Scandinavian soccer player of all time?

Soren Frank

6. Atletico versus Real: Madrid's soccer feud, urban space and stadia

Vicente Rodriguez Ortega

7. Searching for identity through football: the Nicosia derby

Christos Kassimeris and Charis Xinari

8. Derby of a 'difficult' history: the Poland-Russia match at Euro 2012

Martin J. Kozon

9. Superclasicos and rivalry antecedents: exploring soccer club rivalries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Charles Parrish and B. David Tyler

10. USA vs. Mexico: history, geopolitics and economics of one of the world's oldest rivalries in soccer

Steven Apostolov

11. The genesis of team rivalry in the New World: sparks to fan animosity in Major League Soccer

Joe Cobbs and B. David Tyler

12. AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia: footballing rivalry and shared political underdog status in Kenya

W.W.S. Njororai

13. Frenemies: understanding the interconnectedness of rival fan identities in Harare, Zimbabwe

Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

14. See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil? The press, violence and hooliganism at the 'Battle of Zimbabwe'

Lyton Ncube and Allen Munoriyarwa

15. PRC v. Hong Kong: politics and identity from the Cold War years to the twenty-first century

Chun Wing Lee

16. Australian soccer rivalries: diasporas, violence and the Balkan connection

Binoy Kampmark