Association football has consistently been the most popular sport in Ireland at whatever level it is played, amateur or professional. But the game itself has un

2021 saw the centenary of the formation of the League of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland’s primary professional association football league. This new collect

The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British footba

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It should be unthinkable to write the social history of Britain from the late nineteenth century onwards without reference to association football. Yet by the t