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Preliminary findings from a longitudinal examination of the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on domestic supporters of England's professional football clubs: A social capital perspective [Abstract]

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posted on 2022-06-17, 10:55 authored by James Andrew KenyonJames Andrew Kenyon

In a recent commentary published in the Soccer & Society journal on professional football and the COVID‐19 pandemic in England, Kevin Moore (2021) argued that despite the importance of the sport in English culture, “It is just a game. We can easily live without it – if we have to” (p.43). The overall aim of this research, therefore, is to explore what happened when domestic supporters of England’s professional footballs teams did live without the sport throughout the COVID19 pandemic (during national lockdowns and social restrictions, and cancelled fixtures and seasons), how the pandemic impacted upon them and their support for the sport (and beyond), and what they did when the game slowly returned. In doing so, the research is guided by the following research question: “What were the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on football fandom and supporters’ social capital in the UK?”

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Book of Abstracts of the 30th European Sport Management Conference 2022

Pages

72 - 73

Source

30th European Sport Management Conference (EASM 2022)

Publisher

European Association for Sport Management (EASM)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This paper was presented at the 30th European Sport Management Conference (EASM 2022). The Book of Abstracts of the 30th European Sport Management Conference 2022 is available at https://easm2022.com/wpcontent/uploads/2022/09/EASM2022_Innsbruck_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf

Acceptance date

2022-06-06

Publication date

2022-12-31

Copyright date

2022

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Martin Schnitzer; Elisabeth Happ; Cornelia Praxmarer-Kohli; Stefanie Schöttel; Petri Lintumäki; Ioannis Konstantopoulos; L. Graiff; G. Bodet

Location

Innsbruck, Austria

Event dates

5th September 2022 - 8th September 2022

Depositor

Dr Jamie Kenyon. Deposit date: 15 June 2022

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