The Lawrie McMenemy Centre for Football Research

Research

Below you can find a selection of the various publications of LMCFR staff. If you require further information about a specific publication please contact the LMCFR staff member directly.

Bruce-Low S.S.| & Smith D (2007). Explosive Exercises in Sports Training: A Critical Review, Journal of Exercise Physiology . 10(1): 21-33. 

Clayton, B. & Harris, J. (2008). ‘Our friend Jack: Alcohol, friendship and masculinity in university football’, Annals of Leisure Research , 11( 3/4), 311-330.

Clayton, B. & Harris, J. (2004). Footballers wives: The role of the soccer players partner in the construction of idealised masculinity, Soccer and Society , 5(3), 316-334.

Cross, J|. & Henderson, S. (2003). Strategic challenges in the football business: A space analysis, Strategic Change , 12(8): 409-420.

Cross, J. and Henderson, S. (2000). 'Clubs in Space'. Centre Circle.

Elliott, R. (2010, April). Football’s ‘other’ transfer market: Examining the effects of foreign players and processes of ‘feet-exchange’ in the Premier Academy League. Centers and Peripheries in Sport, Malmo: Sweden.

Elliott, R. (2010, February). The athlete as highly skilled migrant: Examining the significance of a conceptual synthesis in athletic migration research. Sport and Diaspora , Lisbon: Portugal.

Elliott, R. (2009). 'Feet-Drain' or 'Feet-Exchange'?: Examining the Effects of Elite Foreign Footballers in the Premier Academy League. Labour Market Migration in European Football: Issues and Challenges . Birkbeck Sports Business Centre: London.

Elliott, R. (2009, June). A game of two halves?: Foreign players in the English Premier League, Invited paper presented at Central Council for Physical Recreation European Summit , London: England.

Elliott, R. (2009, June). Football's foreign exchange: Challenging perceptions of foreign player involvement in the English Premier Academy League, Play the Game: 6th World Communications Conference on Sport and Society , Coventry: England.

Elliott, R. (2009, May). Football's new 'foreign legion'?: Foreign players in the Premier Academy League, Invited paper presented at FC Business Live Player and Coach Development Conference , Birmingham: England.

Elliott, R. (2008, May). 'Feet Drain or Feet Exchange?: The Effects of Foreign Players in the Premier Academy League, Invited paper presented at 'Feet Drain': An Opportunity for Players and a Loss for Nations Conference , London, England.

Elliott, R. & Harris, J. (2011). Crossing the Atlantic from Football to Soccer: Preliminary Observations on the Migrations of English Players and the Internationalization of Major League Soccer, WorkingUSA, 14(4), 555-568.

Elliott, R. & Weedon, G. (2010). Foreign players in the Premier Academy League: ‘Feet-Drain’ or ‘Feet-Exchange’? International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 46(1), 61-75.

Elliott, R. , & Maguire, J. (2008). 'Thinking Outside of the Box': Exploring a Conceptual Synthesis for Research in the Area of Athletic Labour Migration.  Sociology of Sport Journal, 25 (4), 482-497 .

Harris, J. & Parker, A. (Eds.) (2009). Sport and Social Identities . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Harris, J. (2009). ‘Shaping up to the men: (Re)creating identities in women’s football’, in J. Harris and A. Parker (Eds.) Sport and Social Identities . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Harris, J. (2007). Doing gender on and off the pitch: The world of female football players, Sociological Research Online, 12(1).

Harris, J. (2005). The image problem in women's football, Journal of Sport and Social Issues , 29(2), 184-197.

Harris, J. (2004). Still a man's game? Women footballers, personal experience and tabloid myth, in S. Wagg (Ed.) British Football and Social Exclusion . London: Routledge.

Harris, J. (2002). No you can't play you're a girl: Some primary school recollections of female football players, The Bulletin of Physical Education, 38(3) , 161-178.

Harris, J. (2001). Playing the man's game: Sites of resistance and incorporation in women's football, World Leisure, 43(4), 22-29.

Harris, J. (1999). Lie back and think of England: The women of Euro 96, Journal of Sport and Social Issues , 23(1), 96-110.

Harris, J. (1998). Association football in Breconshire 1900-1929, Brycheiniog XXIX, 105-111.

Harris, J. (1996). The early history of association football in Breconshire, Brycheiniog , XXVIII, 127-135.

Harris, J. and Clayton, B. (2008). Tales from the pitch: Some observations on the gendered dynamics of English collegiate soccer, Journal for the Study of Sport and Athletes in Education, 2(2), 239-262.

Harris, J. and Clayton, B. (2007). David Beckham and the changing (re)presentations of English identity, International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 2(3), 208-221.

Hayes, M. (2006). Glasgow Celtic Fans, Political Culture and the Tiocfaidh Ar La Fanzine: Some Comments and a Content Analysis, Football Studies , 9(1), 5-18.

Hayes, M., & O'Brien, J. (2004, September). Soccer, Sectarianism and Social Identity: A Comparative Study of Glasgow Celtic and Barcelona, International Football Institute Conference on European Football, Change and Development , University of Central Lancashire.

Ozawa, T., Cross, J., & Henderson, S . (2004). Market orientation and financial performance of English football clubs. Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing, 13(1).

Maguire, J., Mazur, Z., Wawrzyczek, I. & Elliott, R. (2009). 'New Europe, Old Games': Making Sense of Anglo-Polish Media Coverage of England versus Poland Football Matches.  Sport in Society .12(2), 141-154

Mwaanga, O. (2005). Education through Sport: EduSport Road Map 2010 . EduSport Foundation: Lusaka.  

Mwaanga, O. (2005, June). 'Kicking Aids Out', Sport for Development Conference : Livingstone.

Mwaanga, O. (2002). 'Kicking AIDS Out' through Movement Games and Sport Activities. NORAD: Oslo. 

Mwaanga, O. (2002). A brief guide to mentoring EduSport Talented Athletes. EduSport, Lusaka. 

Mwaanga, O. (2002, August). Methods and approaches for "Kicking AIDS Out". Keynote paper 2 nd  International Conference on HIV/AIDS Education through sport , National Sports Center, Oslo, Norway. 

O'Brien, J. (Forthcoming). La Furia Espanola - Football, Politics and The Media in Spain . Bristol: Intellect Books. 

O'Brien, J. (2009, May). Football, Politics and Cultural Identity in Post - Franco Spain: Communications and Mass Media , Athens Institute for Education and Research: Athens.

O'Brien, J. (2009, February). Football, Politics and The Media in Spain 1920 – 1940: The Governance and Regulation of Sport , Birkbeck: London.

O'Brien, J. (2007, November). Football, The Media and Politics in Spain; From Autocracy to Democracy, Journalism and Politics (Media and Politics Association), University of Staffordshire. 

O'Brien, J. (2007, March). FC Barcelona: Politics and Culture, Symposium on Sports Journalism , International University of Catalonia. 

O'Brien, J. (2006, November). Football and the Media, Anglo-Spanish Comparisons Symposium , University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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