CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Notes on contributors xii Preface and Acknowledgements xviii Introduction: Football, Space and the Built Environment 1 SYBILLE FRANK AND SILKE STEETS Part I: The Politics of Representation and Design 17 1 The New European Stadium 19 ANTHONY KING 2 Show Yourself to the People!': Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society 36 BETTINA KRATZMULLER 3 Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in Public 56 HANS-JORGEN SCHULKE Part II: Architecture and Media 75 4 The Stadium as Cash Machine 77 MICHAEL ZINGANEL 5 The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Medial Spaces of Television and Architecture 98 ANGELIKA SCHNELL 6 Killing Sports Fields: The Amahoro Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda 114 BRUNO ARICH-GERZ Part III: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures 127 7 Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football 129 CHRISTIAN BANSE 8 Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-day Routine at Manchester City FC 146 TIM EDENSOR AND STEVE MILLINGTON 9 'Come Home': The Stadium, Locality and Community at FC United of Manchester 163 ADAM BROWN Part IV: Gender and Space 179 10 Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction 181 CHRISTIAN BROMBERGER 11 Producing Gender-normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer 195 TIFFANY MULLER MYRDAHL 12 Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat Stadium 213 CORINNA ASSMANN AND SILKE GULKER Part V: Emotions and the Body 227 13 Emotions in Sports Stadia 229 MIKE S. SCHAFER AND JOCHEN ROOSE 14 Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground 245 GUNTERGEBAUER 15 Beckhamania: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities beyond the Stadium 261 JOHANNES JOHN Conclusion: The Stadium - Lens and Refuge 278 SYBILLE FRANK AND SILKE STEETS Index 295