Who Owns Football? : Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport (Paperback)

1. Introduction: models of football governance and management in international sport  David Hassan and Sean Hamil  2. Financial performance in English professional football: ‘an inconvenient truth’  Sean Hamil and Geoff Walters  3. The governance and regulation of Italian football  Sean Hamil, Stephen Morrow, Catharine Idle, Giambattista Rossi and Stefano Faccendini  4. Governance and the Gaelic Athletic Association: time to move beyond the amateur ideal?  David Hassan  5. Who owns England’s game? American professional sporting influences and foreign ownership in the Premier League  John Nauright and John Ramfjord  6. ‘Club versus country’ in rugby union: tensions in an exceptional New Zealand system  Camilla Obel  7. The impact of televised football on stadium attendances in English and Spanish league football  Babatunde Buraimo, Juan Luis Paramio and Carlos Campos  8. The model of governance at FC Barcelona: balancing member democracy, commercial strategy, corporate social responsibility and sporting performance  Sean Hamil, Geoff Walters and Lee Watson