Football’s Past Revisited: Further Investigations Into the Early Development of the Game

This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football - from being a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, to getiing adopted, codified and ’civilised’ by the major English Public Schools, then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form.

Graham Curry trained at the University of Leicester, gaining his MA and PhD there. He has written extensively on the historical sociology of Association Football, publishing, in 2016 with Eric Dunning, the thought-provoking Association Football: A Study in Figurational Sociology (Routledge). Still playing, he represents England in the over-60s age group.