Blain, Neil,  1951- <br/><br/>
Sport and national identity in the European media / 
Neil Blain, Raymond Boyle, and Hugh O'Donnell. 
 - vii, 209 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Sport, politics, and culture .
 - Sport, politics, and culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-203) and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Sport and the reinvention of Europe in the mass media --  Footprints on the field: televised sport, delivery systems and national culture in a changing Europe --  We are the boys in green: British and Irish television coverage of the 1988 European Football Championships --  Games across frontiers: the national dimension in European press reporting of Italia '90 --  The war of the roses: discourses of Englishness in the Soviet sporting press --  Wimbledon '91 - The National Dimension in an Individualised Sport --  Centrality and peripherality at the Barcelona Olympics: Spain, Catalonia, Scotland, Portugal --  General Conclusion: sport, Europe and collective identity --  Bibliography --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0718514513 9780718514518 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93003441 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media and sports--Europe<br/>Sports and state--Europe
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV742  / .B53 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>070.449796