European Football and Collective Memory

1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; Jürgen Mittag 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja García-García, Ramón Llopis-Goig and Agustín Martín 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de mémoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945–1991; Seweryn Dmowski 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart Herzog