Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game, first published in 1988, presents a systematic economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I. It explores the tensions behind an increasingly commercialised activity that was nonetheless suffused with 'gentlemanly' values at many levels, and highlights the retreat of the latter as working-class consumption and participation became predominant, symbolised most dramatically by the celebrated victory of proletarian Blackburn Olympic over the Old Etonians in the FA Cup final of 1883. Wray Vamplew examines the linkages between sport, gambling, crime and spectator violence, and concludes that many supposedly 'recent' developments (notably football hooliganism) in fact have their origins in this, the 'Golden Age' of sport in Britain. |
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Contents
Is money the root of all evil? A historical appreciation of commercialisation in sports | 3 |
Comments on the state of play economic historians and sports history | 11 |
Popular recreation before the Industrial Revolution | 21 |
Sporting activities and economic change 17501830 | 33 |
The precursors of commercialised sport 183075 | 44 |
The rise of professional gatemoney sport 18751914 | 51 |
From sports spectator to sports consumer | 73 |
Profits or premierships? | 77 |
Close of play | 227 |
Not playing the game unionism and strikes | 239 |
Labour aristocrats or wage slaves? | 254 |
Ungentlemanly conduct | 259 |
The madding crowd | 266 |
An industrial revolution in sport | 281 |
Shareholders and shareholdings in Scottish and English sport | 287 |
Regulations defining amateurism and professionalism in British sports | 302 |
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Almanack amateur Association Football Aston Villa Athletic average Badminton Magazine Blackburn Rovers Bloodstock Book of Football Britain British Calculated from data Celtic championship commercialised sport county cricket crowd earnings England English soccer equality of competition fees first-class cricket first-division fixtures gambling gate-money ground Heart of Midlothian historians horse-racing horses Jockey Club labour Lancashire C. C. C. Leicestershire Leicestershire C. C. C. leisure London major matches Minutes of Football Minutes of Lancashire Minutes of Leicestershire Nevertheless nineteenth century Northern Rugby Football organised owners Partick Thistle play Popular Recreations profit-maximisation profits racecourses racing Rangers riders rugby league Scotland Scottish Football Association Scottish Football League Scottish soccer second division Shareholdings by occupational shares Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday F. C. soccer soccer clubs social spectators sports history St Mirren Table teams Tischler Total traced Vamplew Victorian vote Warwickshire Warwickshire Cricket winning percentage Wisden Cricketers working-class Yorkshire
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Page xviii - BR Mitchell and P. Deane, Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Cambridge 1962), pp.