sport science and elite football labour process

What is it about?

the increasing use of sport science in football training, matchplay and off-field leisure time to maximise the labour power of football players as valuable and expensive commodities.

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Why is it important?

the paper situates sport science within a struggle over control over football players by drawing out links between the control of the work environment of footballers to maximise the use made of their labour power as part of a money making spectacle and the lack of club control over the labour market experienced by clubs in the form of inflated salaries.