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"In this book, the history and underlying political dynamics characterizing the growth of FIFA and its relationships with global-regional federations and international associations are detailed in a helpful and concise introduction"--

"In this book, the history and underlying political dynamics characterizing the growth of FIFA and its relationships with global-regional federations and international associations are detailed in a helpful and concise introduction"--

Profiles the world's major competitive sports, their political uses and abuses, the profits that flow from their commercial development, and controversies such as cheating, drug use, and betting scandals. Topics include: Olympics, Gay Games, drug abuse, sports for development, media coverage, sponsorship, merchandising, spectating, gambling, tourism, and national sporting profiles

The play-element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- These towards a political sociology of sport / Jean-Marie Brohm -- Top-level sports and 'achievement' / Bero Rigauer -- Rules of the game / Allen Guttmann -- The quest for excitement in leisure / Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning -- Problems of agency and freedom in play, games, and sport / Richard Gruneau -- The autonomy of sport / John Hargreaves -- Theories of sports: the neglect of gender / Jennifer Hargreaves -- Social change / Robert W. Malcolmson -- Survival and adaptation / Richard Holt -- Athleticism / J.A. Mangan -- The best type of girl / Gillian Avery -- Rational recreation and the new athleticism / Peter Bailey -- Class and leisure in mid-Victorian England / Hugh Cunningham -- Amateurs and professionals / Tony Mason -- Men: poverty, unemployment and the family / Andrew Davies -- The proof of the pudding / C.L.R. James -- Sportsmanship and Nazi Olympism / Richard D. Mandell -- Sportive nationalism / John Hoberman -- 'Ma, there's a helicopter on the pitch!' Sport, leisure, and the state in Northern Ireland / John Sugden and Alan Bairner -- Leisure and nationalism / John Wilson -- Sport and community: rhetoric and reality in the development of British sport policy / Maurice Roshe -- The politics of sport and physical education / Margaret Talbot -- The politics of sports policy in Britain: the example of drug abuse / Barrie Houlihan -- The traditional sporting press in Britain / Tony Mason -- Constructing media sport / John Hargreaves -- Potting the gold: the sponsorship game / Steven Barnett -- Narrative: the case of Coe and Ovett / Garry Whannel -- Sport, delivery systems and national culture / Neil Blain, Raymond Boyle and Hugh O'Donnell -- Sensationalism and the popular press / Richard Holt and Tony Mason -- Body lessons: fitness publishing and the cultural production of the fitness consumer / Jennifer Smith Maguire -- Global sport media / Toby Miller, Georffrey Lawrence, Jim McKay and David Rowe

Trinidad and Tobago played in the men's football FIFA World Cup Finals in summer 2006 in Germany, becoming the smallest qualifier, according to population, in the history of the World Cup. In this article, the questions are posed of how such a small nation has achieved this and what the contribution of Jack Warner has been to this story. The analysis is informed by a critical, investigative framework that combines sociological synthesis with qualitative forms of reportage (both academic and journalistic) and interpretation, documentary sources and focused observation (at sporting encounters), and interviews and dialogues with FIFA personnel. The article demonstrates that the football administrations of Trinidad and Tobago and the regional governing body CONCACAF have been used to further the personal and business ambitions of individuals and that the carnivalesque public face of the sport masks processes and dynamics of self-aggrandizement and individual profiteering.

Sociological work on sport and the body has escalated in recent years as the theme of the body has become more established on the social scientific research agenda. This article reviews some of that work and also notes that historical work on the sporting body remains relatively undeveloped. The core of the article is dedicated to the examination of sporting bodies in 19th-century England in popular events and pastimes such as pedestrianism and long-distance swimming. This is based on the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the University Of Oxford's Bodleain Library. The range of bodies on display at the 2000 Sydney Olympics is discussed in a concluding commentary. This is based on personal observational work at Sydney. The article proposes that any adequate understanding of the place of the body must be informed by adequate documentary and observational sources.