Fanatics
Subtitle: Power, Identity and Fandom in Football
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 28, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415181037
First sentence: In 1997, FIFA President, Joao Havelange, estimated football's annual global financial turnover to be in excess of US$250 billion - more than multinational corporations such as General Motors, and considerably more than the GNPs of the vast majority of FIFA's 200-plus member nations (authors' interview with Havelange, Cairo, 3 September 1997).