There are many complex attitudes surrounding the viewing and playing of football, at both amateur and professional levels. The sites below provide facts and figures, answers to frequently asked questions, and in-depth analyses of the football phenomenon. These resources can be used for your own personal research, and to complement the lessons included in the teachers' resources.

Web-Links A-Z
Search these links to find out more about what the football world is doing to help tackle inequality of all kinds.

Useful Websites

Sexism in Football
Fair Game (magazine)
Women’s Football News
Women’s Sports Foundation

Racism in Football
Football Against Racism in Europe
Kick It Out
Sporting Equals

Homophobia in Football
Pink News
Stonewall

General
Homeless World Cup
Sport England
The Football Association
The Football Foundation

Books
‘Fever Pitch’, Nick Hornby (1992)
‘Football Against the Enemy’, Simon Kuper (1994)
‘Football in Sun and Shadow’, Eduardo Galeano
‘My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writing’, various (2006)
‘Power, Corruption and Pies: A decade of the best football writing from When Saturday Comes’, various (1997)
‘The Damned United’, David Peace (2006)
‘The Dick Kerr’s Ladies’, Barbora Jacobs (2005)

Films
Bend it like Beckham (2002)
Best (2000)
Escape to Victory (1981)
Fever Pitch (1997)
Goal (2005)
Green Street (2005)
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
The Game of Their Lives (2005)
There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
When Saturday Comes (1996)
11 Men Out (2005)

Articles
These articles contain interesting facts and opinions about the wider implications of football as a social phenomenon. Also listed here are articles by some of the Full Time partners, expressing their personal views and experiences.

‘Barriers to women and girls' participation in sport’, Women’s Sports Foundation, 2007

‘Careers in Sport’, Women’s Sport Foundation (2007)

‘Determinants of sports and physical activities amongst 16-19 year-old women in England’, Coleman, Cox, Roker and Sherriff (2006)

‘Driving down Participation: Homophobic bullying as a deterrent to doing sport’, Brackenbridge, Gough, Llewellyn and Rivers (2005)

‘Football’: an extract from 'UK: Trash Culture',
Crabtree (2004)

‘Football for All’ by Rachel Wagstaff,
playwright of ‘Full Time’ (2007)

‘Playing My Part’, by Leon Mann from Kick It Out (2007)

‘Playing the Field(s): an exploration of change, conformity and conflict in girls' understanding of gendered physicality in Physical Education’, Hills (2006)

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