Introduction: Football grounds, grounds of struggle Part I: Defend: Working class resistance to the bourgeois order 1. Kicking off: Riotous balls and social control 2. Normalising bodies, shaping minds: The birth of an industrial sport 3. The people's game: Football as a cultural trait of the working class 4. The Munitionnettes: The saga of the first women football players in Britain 5. Class against class: Working-class football in France, an extension of the field of struggle Part II: Attack: Assault on dictatorships 6. 'A small way of saying "no"': Italy, the USSR, Spain: stadiums under totalitarian regimes 7. Ball at the feet against the iron fist: Football's resistance to Nazi domination 8.
'Corinthian democracy': Football and self-organisation against the Brazilian dictatorship 9. On the front line, Tahrir Square: Ultras Ahlawy fans at the heart of the 2011 revolution in Egypt Part III: Dribble: Outmanoeuvring colonialism 10. The Algerian Independence Eleven: A liberation struggle in football boots 11. When Palestine occupies the pitch: Football as a political weapon in the hands of the Palestinians 12. Dribbling the ball, a decolonial art: Afro-Brazilian identities and indigenous resistance in football 13. Sending colonialism off: Football and emancipation struggles in sub-Saharan Africa Part IV: Support: Collective passions and popular cultures 14. 'You'll Never Walk Alone': Hooliganism and subcultures in British stands 15. The twelfth man: The Italian ultras movement: from political militancy to supporter autonomy 16.
'God and the devil': Maradona, between popular passion and fan cult 17. 'We are lovers, not fighters': Istanbul's ultras and Turkish power Part V: Outflank: Facing the football industry: fight and reinvent 18. Football for footballers!: From May'68 to the fans' revolt 19. Tackling sexism: Women's football against the French sporting patriarchy 20. "Here it's about punk football": Fan-owned clubs in England 21. Play on the left wing: Hamburg's FC Sankt Pauli or the pirates of the football business 22. Wild balls, balls on the margins: Street football wrong-foots at the institutional game Postscript to the English edition Endnotes Acknowledgments Index.