European Football and Collective Memory

Abstract

1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective Wolfram Pyta 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football Tobias Werron 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups Jurgen Mittag 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity? Michael Groll 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space Borja Garcia-Garcia, Ramon Llopis-Goig and Agustin Martin 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final Geoff Hare 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de memoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal' Jean Christophe Meyer 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero? David Ranc 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory Clemens Kech 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945-1991 Seweryn Dmowski 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football Markwart Herzog