Professor Tony Collins starts a series of articles about the relationship between sport and capitalism with an introduction to the history of sport. It’s been a rough year for sport. In the last few months we’ve seen match-fixing allegations in tennis, Russia banned from international athletics for alleged doping, and…

John Storey outlines the relations between football's history and social class. In the About Us section of this website, cultural activities are described as sites of domination and acceptance, struggle and resistance. And in my featured article, What do we mean by culture and why does it matter, I described…