Author: Leslie Crang

Courting Controversy:
How Tennis Activism has Responded to the Margaret Court Arena in Australia and Her Homophobic Comments:
How Social Media Often Fails

Posted by Leslie Crang | Feb 15, 2021 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Sport & Politics, Tennis, Women in Sport | 0

Margaret Court’s 24 Grand Slam tennis titles still stands as a record. Her title wins came over...

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Diego Maradona – The film – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Claudio Gentile

Posted by Leslie Crang | May 7, 2020 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Football, Team Sports | 0

Over the summer I watched by Diego Maradona by Asif Kapadia. A biographical look at the turbulent...

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The Gendered Tournament – Wimbledon 1980

Posted by Leslie Crang | Dec 9, 2019 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Tennis, Women in Sport | 0

Having previously written about tennis in these two articles Borg VS McEnroe Film, or the...

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“The first man in a tackle never gets hurt” – Wilf Copping and representations of Englishness

Posted by Leslie Crang | Nov 12, 2018 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Football | 0

Wilf Copping, to many fans would be no one you heard of. To some Arsenal fans though, he is...

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The image of Islam and North Africa within French Football

Posted by Leslie Crang | Jul 2, 2018 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Football | 0

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them...

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