The Southern Football Hero and the Shaping of Local and Regional Identity in the South of England
2001; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/714004861
ISSN1743-9590
Autores Tópico(s)Canadian Identity and History
ResumoThis article explores aspects of southern regional football identity through a case study of Portsmouth Football Club in the late 1940s and 1950s. Collectively, and as individuals, players from the Portsmouth teams of 1948-49 and 1949-50 clearly embodied the qualities of Holt's composite Northern Hero. The Portsmouth case suggests that distinctions between northern and southern football identities may be overstated. Important traits commonly associated with northern football teams and individual footballers were also in evidence in the Portsmouth sides of this period. Indeed the northern qualities appear to have been central to the club's success at that time and to have helped define local identity in relation to London and possibly the rest of the country. Moreover, as an example of a Southern Hero, Jimmy Dickinson embodied many northern as well as southern traits.
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