European football and collective memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta -- 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron -- 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; Jürgen Mittag -- 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll -- 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja García-García, Ramón Llopis-Goig and Agustín Martín -- 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare -- 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de mémoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer -- 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc -- 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech -- 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945-1991; Seweryn Dmowski -- 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart Herzog