Title The work of professional football : a labour of love? / Martin Roderick.

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London : Routledge, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 196 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
Summary	Martin Roderick, a former professional footballer, provides insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of club players. He explores the culture of work in professional football, and the fragile and uncertain nature of professional sport careers.
Contents	Professional football in context -- Attitudes to work in professional football -- Uncertainty and football injuries -- Injuries, stigma and social identity -- Transferring and the transformation of self -- Transfer markets and informal grapevines -- Control and the process of transferring -- The fate of idealism in professional football.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Soccer players -- Job satisfaction.
	Soccer -- Social aspects.
	Soccer players -- Social conditions.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Soccer.
	Soccer -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01122161
	Voetbal.
	Sociale aspecten.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Roderick, Martin. Work of professional football. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415363721 041536373X (DLC) 2005028645 (OCoLC)61821776
ISBN	0415363721
	9780415363723
	0203014952 (electronic bk.)
	9780203014950 (electronic bk.)
	0415363721 (Cloth)
	9780415363723 (hbk.)
	041536373X (paperback)
	9780415363730 (paperback)

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