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100 1 |aLaybourn, Keith.
245 10|aFOOTBALL POOLS AND THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS|h[electronic resource] :|ba political, social and cultural history.
260 |a[S.l.] :|bROUTLEDGE,|c2022.
300 |a1 online resource
490 0 |aRoutledge studies in modern British history
520 |aThis book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling activity became a significant leisure opportunity for the working class - a way to feel that the individual skill of the punter could lead to the winning of some life-changing jackpot cheque being presented by a sporting personality of celebrity. Dominated by Littlewoods, and other large commercial companies, the weekly filling-in of the coupons was considered to be a safe form of investment, guaranteed by the integrity of the pool companies, rather than some seedy gambling operation. The Football Pools and the British Working Class looks at different elements of the football pools from what attracted people to this form of gambling to how the industry developed and adjusted to the suspension of the football fixtures in 1936, and the bad winter of 1962-3. Above all, it examines the deep hostility that surrounded the filling in of the football pools arising from the National Anti-Gambling League, religious groups, the football authorities and MPs. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of British football and 20th century British working class culture.
588 |aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 7|aHISTORY / General|2bisacsh
650 7|aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain|2bisacsh
650 0|aSoccer|xBetting|xSocial aspects|zGreat Britain.
650 0|aWorking class|zGreat Britain.
856 40|3Taylor & Francis|uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003144908
856 42|3OCLC metadata license agreement|uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
901 |aTaylor & Francis