This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

However, the contributors to this book argue that the heavily commodified, PR-driven and cartelised British football world, with which so many contemporary politicians and other public figures rush to identify themselves, has either created, exacerbated or continued to ignore serious problems of social exclusion problems of class and community, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age. Stephen Wagg, Tim Crabbe, Adam Brown, John Baine, Neil Taylor, Pat Slaughter, John Harris, Jayne Caudwell, Eileen Kennedy, Raymond Boyle, Paul Daniel and Simon Thorpe.