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Author Oakley, Chris.

Title Football delirium / Chris Oakley.

Publication Info. London : Karnac Books, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction; Parklife; Trenchmouth; The Tableau Vivant; Living the Dream; Sex in the Stadium; Losing: My Religion; Football is Therapy; Conclusion.
Summary In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide preoccupation with football. Does anybody have the answer? This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life. For the paradox is that this very madness is simultaneously therapeutic: football as an insistent provocation, repeatedly re-inaugurating the reverie or drift, disrupted by those moments of the most int.
Subject Soccer -- Psychological aspects.
Soccer fans -- Psychology.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Soccer.
Soccer fans -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122179
Soccer -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01122151
Other Form: Print version: Oakley, Chris. Football delirium. London : Karnac Books, 2007 1855754789 (OCoLC)171111529
ISBN 9781849405898 (electronic bk.)
1849405891 (electronic bk.)
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