The Kop: Liverpool's twelfth man

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The Kop was initially published in 1993 and updated in 2005 to take account of new evidence. It made a significant contribution
\nto sports journalism and social history as the first oral history study to focus on football fandom. Through more than 100
\ninterviews the book examines the importance of the role of community, the nature of locality, the dynamics of fandom, fashion,
\nand ritual. In doing so takes it details the role of the fan in sport. The interviews recorded varying social changes in fandom
\ngoing back as far as 1910 with many interviews covering the 1930, 40s, 50s and 1960s. The study of sport through oral history
\ntechniques is now recognised as a legitimate and important technique in the study of popular culture and is of increasing
\nimportance in the work of the sports journalist.
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\nThe book is typical of the style of interviewing which any sports journalist has to undertake where a pro-active approach may
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