The relationship between law and football is, perhaps surprisingly, one with a long history. However, although early examples of legal intervention focused primarily upon public-order issues, as football began to evolve so did the law’s relation to it. Different forms of law began to be utilised, culminating in the large number of commercial law issues now confronting football. As this book shows, the ways in which football is regulated are not necessarily all legal in nature, and much of the book is concerned with the mechanisms used to control the game, both internally and externally
