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After defining ‘supporters’ against ‘spectators’ with the concomitant high level of emotional and monetary investment, this chapter, centred on Purely Belter (2000), examines the steps taken to experience a key, usually cup final football match, in films ranging from comedy and romance to dangerous obsession and (back to) kidnapping.
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Glynn, S. (2018). Getting There. In: The British Football Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77727-6_9
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