~Introduction
• Soccer, a game where two teams work collaboratively to try and put the ball into the other teams goal, with only the use of their feet. What this introduction should do is inform the reader, and myself, of the intentions of this thesis while also giving a pre-view of coming attractions. It should include some of the theories I will use, mention some of the place I will visit through analysis, and clarify my method of work, both for the field research and for the theoretical work. But I need to put something about civil society in here, as this is where the activity is taking place (the space).
~Chapter 1
• What is my theoretical framework? How can this be established in a manor helpful to the rest of the paper? Does it make sense to do this before a historical overview? Perhaps this theory would be more useful if it is introduced during the ‘actual’ meat and bones work? This seems to make sense now, particularly considering that I will mention the key thinkers in my introduction.
• Ok, so then this chapter is going to be about providing context for the paper. This will look at how the Romans used spectacle to appease and control the masses, yet also how the masses used it to the same ends. These Roman games were thus an important part of cultural life in the empire, and subsequently occupied, physically at least, the center of the city landscape. From there, and looking at how later empires spread sports and entertainment, we can briefly detail how the game of soccer evolved, where it came from, and how it spread. This game certainly went through a number of evolutions (particularly if we look as far back as the early Chinese, African, and Native American ball games), and was only codified in the last two hundred years. Since then it has become a global phenomenon both as an activity and as a business (which has continued the evolutionary trend).
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