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Underpinning the popularity of both the professional and amateur game lies children’s, aka junior, football. Along with capturing the proclivity of the nation’s youth for idolising football heroes and/or for kicking a ball themselves, as an educational structure or an escape from adult supervision, film treatments such as Bend It Like Beckham (2002) show that the game here too can function as a wider indicator of political and gender resistance.
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Glynn, S. (2018). Kids. In: The British Football Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77727-6_6
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