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Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.

Soccer --- Soccer teams --- Soccer fans --- Sports and state. --- Sports --- Sports policy --- State and sports --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- Soccer spectators --- Sports spectators --- Soccer clubs --- Sports teams --- History. --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Fans --- Clubs

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Video-recordings of families and groups of friends watching the FIFA men’s football World Cup in their homes allow access to the empirical rather than the imagined or inscribed audiences of a major television event. Qualitative analyses reveal how natural audiences behave in the reception situation appropriating live televised football through talk. Gerhardt shows how the mainly English television viewers use an array of linguistic and embodied resources to turn watching football into a meaningful activity in their groups. Cohesive devices and sequentiality link the fans’ talk-in-interaction to the televised text (commentary and pictures). Gaze behaviour, pointing, and even jumping up and down are used as resources for a variety of functions like the construction of an identity as football fan.

Interpersonal communication. --- Sequence (Linguistics) --- Television broadcasting of sports --- Television viewers. --- Sports --- Soccer fans. --- Soccer --- Soccer spectators --- Sports spectators --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Audiences, Television --- Television audiences --- Television fans --- Television watchers --- Viewers, Television --- Mass media --- Sports broadcasting --- Sports in television --- Mass media and sports --- Sports journalism --- Television and sports --- Sequencing (Linguistics) --- Sequentiality (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistics --- Order (Grammar) --- Communication --- Interpersonal relations --- Social aspects. --- Language. --- Fans --- Audiences