Face to Face

Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India. Formerly a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2010) and of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2006–2009 and 2013–2015), he is also Deputy Executive Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge).

• Introduction: rivalries in world soccerKausik Bandyopadhyay1. Up’Ards, Down’Ards and derbies: figurational reflections on intense enmity in pre-modern English footballGraham Curry2. The ‘talk o’ the toon’? An examination of the Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian football rivalry in Edinburgh, ScotlandJohn Kelly and Alan Bairner3. The ‘Auld Enemy’? Exploring the England vs. Scotland rivalry from the perspective of soccer fansStuart Whigham and Tom Gibbons4. ‘They’re just not my team’: the issue of player allegiances within Irish football, 2007–2012Conor Murray and David Hassan5. Laudrup or Ibrahimović: who is the best Scandinavian soccer player of all time?Søren Frank6. Atlético versus Real: Madrid’s soccer feud, urban space and stadiaVicente Rodriguez Ortega 7. Searching for identity through football: the Nicosia derbyChristos Kassimeris and Charis Xinari8. Derby of a ‘difficult’ history: the Poland-Russia match at Euro 2012Martin J. Kozon9. Superclásicos and rivalry antecedents: exploring soccer club rivalries in Argentina, Brazil, and MexicoCharles Parrish and B. David Tyler10. USA vs. Mexico: history, geopolitics and economics of one of the world’s oldest rivalries in soccerSteven Apostolov11. The genesis of team rivalry in the New World: sparks to fan animosity in Major League SoccerJoe Cobbs and B. David Tyler12. AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia: footballing rivalry and shared political underdog status in KenyaW.W.S. Njororai13. Frenemies: understanding the interconnectedness of rival fan identities in Harare, ZimbabweManase Kudzai Chiweshe14. See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil? The press, violence and hooliganism at the ‘Battle of Zimbabwe’Lyton Ncube and Allen Munoriyarwa15. PRC v. Hong Kong: politics and identity from the Cold War years to the twenty-first centuryChun Wing Lee16. Australian soccer rivalries: diasporas, violence and the Balkan connectionBinoy Kampmark