The British Olympic football team : a quasi-experimental assessment of support for a new sport team among Scottish and English football fans
Purpose The decision by the British Olympic Association to enter a soccer team into the Olympic Games of 2012, having not participated in the Olympic soccer competition since 1960, provided an opportunity to study representation as a predictor of fan identification. The paper aims to discuss this i...
Main Authors: | Hills, Stephen, Heere, Bob, Walker, Matthew |
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Format: | Article |
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Emerald
2018
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