Games Without Frontiers

This work examines the game of football, asking what makes it so popular, and examining the diversity of its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world. It also investigates how the game reinforces or overcomes social differences, and looks at subcultures like football hooliganism.

Richard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Richard Richard Giulianotti, Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures, John Williams is Senior Researcher at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research at Leicester University, UK