Amateurism in British Sport
It Matters Not Who Won or Lost?| By: | null |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138880399 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136802904 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The ideal of the amateur competitor, playing the game for love and, unlike the professional, totally untainted by commerce, has become embedded in many accounts of the development of modern sport. It has proved influential not least because it has underpinned a pervasive impression of professionalism - and all that came with it - as a betrayal of i