The spread of sportswashing within top-flight football: a discussion of its underpinnings, mechanisms and probable consequences
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
ISSN: 0951-3574
Article publication date: 10 July 2023
Issue publication date: 5 March 2024
Abstract
Purpose
The paper discusses a range of aspects of the spread of sportswashing within top-flight football, identifies the motivations of its proponents, what is on offer to football clubs, their followers and local communities and the ways in which it coheres with the nature of the modern game.
Design/methodology/approach
A range of disparate literature, both academic and non-academic, is synthesised to provide a broad-ranging introduction to the spread of sportswashing within top-flight football.
Findings
Sportswashing is likely to increase within top-flight football in future years as a result of its resonance with aspects of the game's evolving nature. Resistance to its continuing spread presently appears improbable.
Originality/value
As relatively recent development within football, the sportswashing topic has produced a limited literature to which this paper contributes.
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Citation
Roslender, R. (2024), "The spread of sportswashing within top-flight football: a discussion of its underpinnings, mechanisms and probable consequences", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 37 No. 2, pp. 638-648. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-06-2022-5849
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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