By Wray Vamplew
In response to an unlimited diversity of membership and organization documents, Pay Up and Play the sport, first released in 1988, provides a scientific fiscal research of the emergence of mass spectator game throughout the years ahead of global warfare I. It explores the tensions at the back of an more and more commercialised job that used to be still suffused with 'gentlemanly' values at many degrees, and highlights the retreat of the latter as working-class intake and participation grew to become principal, symbolised such a lot dramatically by way of the prestigious victory of proletarian Blackburn Olympic over the outdated Etonians within the FA Cup ultimate of 1883. Wray Vamplew examines the linkages among activity, playing, crime and spectator violence, and concludes that many supposedly 'recent' advancements (notably soccer hooliganism) in reality have their origins during this, the 'Golden Age' of game in Britain.
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1 So it is with sport in general: it can be fun, but it can also have significant political, social and economic consequences. So it is with sports history: studying it can be as much fun as playing sport, but it can also be just as serious. Unfortunately, historians have been slow to appreciate this. One aficionado in the early twentieth century lamented that 'it is a surprising circumstance that the national idiosyncracy of which many of us are proudest - our love for sport - has hitherto signally failed to arouse the enthusiasm of .
The Puritans were not satisfied solely with strict Sabbatarianism: even on other days recreation was to be tightly controlled. Drinking, gambling and the sports associated with it, profanity and prostitution were obvious targets for prohibitive legislation; brutal sports were outlawed as a double evil providing pleasure for the spectators as well as pain to the animals; even dancing was frowned upon because as a result of it 'many maidens have been unmaidened'. 49 Indeed many Puritans felt that any leisure which did not contribute to a person's religious development was heinous.
2 Little has changed a century later when it could be commented that 'one thing that mattered to most working men in late Victorian England was how they spent the time when they were not at work. '3 Economic historians in particular have failed to take up their pens. Sport has become big business: vast amounts are invested in the creation of the sports product and its economic spin-offs; sports superstars earn high incomes, as much from off-field as on-field activities; and sports consumers by the million pay at the gate to watch them play, and even more are secondhand spectators via the printed and electronic media.