Oop for t' coop: sporting identity in Victorian Britain: as the climax of the football season approaches, Mike Huggins investigates the origins of Britain's morass of sporting rivalries.

From: History Today | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

FROM THE ANCIENT Olympics to soccer's World Cup, sport has offered supporters a means of asserting identity, and its passionate rivalries have often incorporated more fundamental antagonisms. But it was in Victorian Britain that modern patterns of sporting identity, now to be found around the world, first became widespread.

By the 1880s a successful side might return home to huge public celebrations; a defeat might result in abuse, threats of violence, barracking, invasions of ring, pitch or track and attacks on players or referees. In 1883, a winning Llanelli rugby team at ...

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