Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

by Robert Steen

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014

Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.
Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book offers a thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients that magnetise millions around the globe.

It tells the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408152150
• ISBN13: 9781408152157
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"