Crossing the Line?; The Press and Anglo-German Football Rivalry

ISBN-13: 9781788746557 / Angielski

Christoph Wagner

Opis

This book covers forty years of press coverage from selected English and German newspapers; it offers a perspective on how the German press covered the World Cup final of 1966 and how these papers reacted to the jingoism displayed by the English tabloids and embeds this into the wider Anglo/British-German relations.

Spis treści

Contents: Post-War: Anglo-German Football in the 1950s - 'Of course, a little chauvinism was in order': England and Germany in the 1960s - 'For the loser now will be later to win ...', 1968-1978 - 'Let's Blitz Fritz': England versus Germany in the 1980s and 1990s - The German Response.

O autorze

Christoph Wagner gained his PhD at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Having lived in England for many years, he now lives in Paris where he works as an online journalist reporting on football and cycling. He also teaches at Université Gustav Eiffel.