European Football and Collective Memory, 2015
Football Research in an Enlarged Europe Series

Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.

1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; Jürgen Mittag 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja García-García, Ramón Llopis-Goig and Agustín Martín 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de mémoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945–1991; Seweryn Dmowski 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart Herzog

Seweryn Dmowski, University of Warsaw, Poland Borja García-García, Loughborough University, UK Michael Groll, German Sport University Cologne, Germany Geoff Hare, Independent Scholar, UK Markwart Herzog, Swabian Academy of Irsee, Germany Clemens Kech, Pro Heraldica, Germany Ramon Llopis Goig, University of Valencia, Spain Agustín Martín, Diario AS, Spain Jean Christophe Meyer, University of Strasbourg, France Jürgen Mittag, German Sport University Cologne, Germany David Ranc, ESSCA, France Tobias Werron, University of Lucerne, Switzerland