Tony Mason is the author of Sport in Britain (1998); Passion of the People? Football in South America (1995); and co-author of Sport in Britain 1945-2000 (2000) and Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (2011). He has taught at Nottingham, Edinburgh, Hull, Warwick and De Montfort Universities in the United Kingdom. Dilwyn Porter is Honorary Professor of Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University and Visiting Professor of Modern History at Newman University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.