Why We Follow Teams We’ll Never Play For: Football, Identity, and the Psychology of Belonging - Couverture souple

Calder, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798244537697

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Why do we commit so deeply to teams we’ll never play for — and never stop following, even when they give us nothing back?

From childhood loyalties to inherited allegiances, football attachment runs deeper than results, trophies, or logic. In Why We Follow Teams We’ll Never Play For, Thomas Calder explores the powerful psychological forces that turn clubs into identities and matchdays into rituals of belonging.

This is not a book about tactics, managers, or modern football culture. It is a calm, thoughtful examination of why football loyalty feels personal — why wins feel like validation, losses feel like grief, and leaving a club can feel like a kind of loss no one else quite understands. Drawing on psychology, social identity theory, memory, and shared experience, this book explains why football binds people together across generations, cities, and lives.

Book 1 of the Football, Identity & Belonging series, this opening volume lays the foundation: how identity forms before choice, how loyalty is inherited, and why belonging often matters more than success. The books that follow will go deeper — into rivalry, modern disconnection, and what happens when football changes faster than the identities built around it.

If you’ve ever struggled to explain why football matters to you — or why it still does after years of disappointment — this book puts words to something you’ve always felt but never fully articulated.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798244537697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 45
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