Abstract
This thesis explores the propensity for harms throughout children’s non-competitive football. Adopting ethnographic approaches this project follows a team of under 9’s non-competitive team in a SW FA league, it analyses their private social media page and conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with life-long players, parents, coaches and referees. It advances a critical criminology of sport by presenting an alternative framework to Elias and the Civilising process by using contemporary critical criminology, namely ultra-realism and deviant leisure. By using ultra-realism and deviant leisure this study examines the underlying systemic harm which comes from the neoliberal environment of sport, including children’s non-competitive football.
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Date
2022-01-01
DOI
10.24382/531
Recommended Citation
Gallacher, G. (2022) The Neoliberal Game: An critical analysis of children's non competitive grassroots football. Thesis. University of Plymouth. Available at: https://doi.org/10.24382/531
