International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. The aim of this paper was to photograph this precise moment in history, focusing on the situation of older adults during the COVID-19 health emergency in Northern Italy. In particular, we…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This paper demonstrates the community support of Premier League football players during the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the United Kingdom (March to May 2020). Given the global po…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This paper provides a systematic attempt to empirically describe the ways in which athletes’ consent to take part in sport is socially constructed, communicated and understood by others. …
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. As a crucial part of their mandate, public service media have historically used sports to construct and nurture cultural citizenship. In a landscape characterised by dwindling resources a…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 552-574, June 2022. Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there rema…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Commentators are reported to describe male and female players in different ways across a range of sports. The present study examines televised commentary on men’s and women’s games in the…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Paralympic and Para sport representation has provided an important cultural site from which to explore the role of popular disability media in shaping everyday disability knowledge(s) thr…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer ‘sport for all’ concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine …
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. On 6 May 2020, photos were leaked from a conversation in which Brendan Leipsic of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, his brother Jeremy of the University of Manitoba Bisons…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Match-fixing has already been studied in various sport disciplines. However, despite some well-known incidents in road cycling, match-fixing has barely been investigated in this unique sp…