Beschreibung:
This text provides a new dimension to the exciting and rapidly expanding field of sport and the law. David McArdle contemplates laws influence over the development of football between the founding of the English Football League in 1888 and the European Court of Justices seminal ruling in the Bosman case over a century later.
1. Law, Leisure and the Development of Modern Football 2. One Hundred Years of Servitude: Contractual Conflict in English Professional Football Before Bosman 3. They're Playing R Song': Bosman and Beyond 4. Missing the Target: Legal Responses to 'Football Hooliganism' 5. Crowd Control or Customer Care? 6. Fighting Talk: Challenging Racism in Football 7. Sex Discrimination, Employment Law and the Professional Game 8. Player Violence and Injuries 9. Judicial Review, 'Public Authorities' and The Disciplinary Powers of Governing Bodies 10. Participation and the Law of Equal Opportunities 11. Blowing the Whistle: Taking the Lead in Participant Protection