SOC: English students to deconstruct David Beckham

AAP Sports News (Australia), March, 2000

AAP Sports News (Australia) 03-29-2000 SOC: English students to deconstruct David Beckham STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, March 29 Reuters - Defenders have long dreamed of deconstructing David Beckham but now English university students can do it for real. A new degree course offered by the University of Staffordshire allows third year students the chance to tackle the phenomenon of the Manchester United midfielder and write dissertations on his disciplinary record. "The course is called Football Culture.

It is new and it's the first of it's kind," Professor Ellis Cashmore said today. He said the students taking part would have to have completed courses on other subjects such as the sociology of the sport, and sports business and merchandising. ...

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