Titlebook: Supporter Ownership in English Football; Class, Culture and P Chris Porter Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 s

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Clubs in Crisis: Supporters to the Rescueby the mismanagement of private ownership regimes. Through their rallying efforts, involving fundraising, lobbying, volunteering, campaigning, networking and ultimately taking control of the ailing club, fans have managed to preserve their clubs as valued local cultural institutions, in part by impl

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Rip It Up and Start Again: Locality, Loyalty and Culture Warsr their football club can no longer be realised within the ‘shell’ of the club in its current, established institutional form, and have instead formed ‘breakaway’ clubs. Driven by a belief that their ‘parent club’ has been taken away from them, whether geographically or figuratively, rebel fans have

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Where There’s Brass… in recent years. A growing disconnect between club officials and many supporters led to a series of damaging conflicts, as well as revelations as to the parlous state of the club’s finances. It is argued that this is testament not only to the entrenchment of a culture of complacency and deference i

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Rip It Up and Start Again: Locality, Loyalty and Culture Wars taken the maxim ‘the fans are the club’ to heart. Such a step into the unknown is however fraught with cultural contestation and conflict, challenging as it does some of the core tenets of traditionally-held ‘authentic’ fandom.

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Where There’s Brass…n the club’s formative years but also to defensive responses by officials that run counter to the club’s open, democratic ethos. Crucially, such conflicts cannot be dismissed as the failings of individual personalities or group characteristics, but instead are telling of wider, more general political and cultural tendencies.