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Cultural Crisis: The Great Divide

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Lower League Football in Crisis

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The cultural crisis described in this chapter is characterised by the rupture between clubs and their communities. That this crisis is not a recent phenomenon and how the crisis materialises in the lower leagues will be demonstrated, mainly by drawing on stadium-related notions of ‘loss of place’.

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Ziesche, D. (2020). Cultural Crisis: The Great Divide. In: Lower League Football in Crisis. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53747-0_4

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