West Ham United Football Club and the Beginnings of Professional Football in East London, 1895-1914
1978; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002200947801300203
ISSN1461-7250
Autores Tópico(s)American Sports and Literature
Resumosoccer and other forms of football in Victorian England reflected a series of social upheavals within both middle class and workingclass society. Unfortunately, only recently have football and sports in general received attention from social historians. Sources for the study of the early years of football are minimal by traditional historical standards. Most of the clubs have kept few records and they have been reluctant to allow outsiders to use the documents that are available. The major newspapers devoted little space to football and most of that to match reports. Local newspapers are a valuable source for individual clubs, but the scope of their reporting is limited and the quality very patchy. The weekly sporting newspapers, The Athletic News for example, reported matches as well as covering the changes in the administrative structure of football and the complex business operations that became part of the sport in the last fifteen years of
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