Fair Game?
Tackling Politics in Sport
Published on 15. June 2016
256 pages
978-1-78531-233-5 (ISBN)
Description
Sport throws up its own controversies, rows over tactics, disputes over refereeing calls, the spectre of drugs cheats. Then there are those with dark political overtones. Fair Game? Tackling Politics and Sport takes a look at controversial moments when sport and politics have collided during the past century, some tragic, others plain sinister, a few bizarre; all the subject of hot dispute. Ranging from the infamous Berlin Olympics, hijacked by Hitler and the Nazis, the tragedy of Munich, and the Cold War boycotts, to the curious case of the Gaelic Athletic Association throwing out Irish President Douglas Hyde. It shows how sport can be cynically manipulated by some of the most unsavoury characters in world history; and how ultimately athletes and the fans end up losers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
File size
3,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78531-233-5 (9781785312335)
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06/2016
Pitch Publishing Ltd
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Person
John Leonard is a journalist with more than three decades' experience. He began his career on local newspapers in Staffordshire as a reporter for the Stafford Newsletter and then the Leek Post and Times before working for BBC News in London. He moved to ITN, employed there as a sports producer before becoming a programme editor for Five News and ITV News. A lifelong Stoke City fan, he enjoyed an ill-starred brief sporting career as an athlete running for Staffordshire Moorlands AC.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction: Strutting the World Stage
- Hitler's Olympics: Berlin 1936
- England's Football Shame: The Nazi Salute
- The Black Power Salute
- Cricket and Apartheid: The D'Oliveira Affair
- Rugby: An Afrikaans Religion?
- Nelson Mandela and the Rugby World Cup
- The Football War
- World Cup Final 1954: 'The Miracle of Bern'
- Melbourne 1956: 'Blood in the Water'
- Black September: Munich 1972
- The Miracle On Ice
- Cold War Boycotts
- Zola Budd: The Barefoot Runner
- Jackie Robinson: Breaking Baseball's Colour Barrier
- Fight of the Century: Joe Louis v Max Schmeling
- A Gaelic Game and the Garrison Game
- The Strange Tale of the GAA and President Hyde
- Defying Terrorist Threats: 'At Least We Turned Up'
- Bodyline
- The Brazil World Cup 2014
- Select Bibliography
- Photographs
