David Ranc's Schools

• University of Cambridge , Class of 2007 Ph.D in European History and International Relations I wrote a Phd on ‘Identification, Football and the Press in Europe after the Bosman ruling (1995)’, where I researched how football supporters identify with their clubs at a time when the players are in majority foreign.

• University of Cambridge , Class of 2001 MPhil in European History and International Relations I researched the reaction of football supporters in Glasgow to the end of a decades long policy of not admitting any Catholic in Glasgow Rangers Football Team.

• Sciences Po , Class of 2000 MA in Politics and Public Policy Diplôme de l’IEP de Paris.

• Université de Paris X-Nanterre , Class of 1997 Bachelors in History

David Ranc's Affiliations

• Sport&EU (the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union) 2005 Sport&EU (the association for the study of sport and the European Union), exists to bring together all scholars with an interest on the Union’s involvement in sports and its consequences for policy, law and society (largely defined). The association aims to promote comparative and interdisciplinary studies focusing on various sports. It is also committed to theoretical debate and research within the area of sport and the EU. Sport&EU’s main goal is to provide researchers with a network to exchange ideas and information in order to develop a research agenda that could enhance the profile of the discipline of sport within the area of European Studies (both largely defined).

David Ranc's Publications

• Vectors of Identification and Markers of Identity in Contemporary European Football, Sport and the Construction of Identities (ed: Bettina KRATZMÜLLER; Matthias MARSCHIK; Rudolf MÜLLNER; Hubert D. SZEMETHY; Elisabeth TRINKL). Vienna: Verlag Turia & Kant, 2007. January, 2007 An analysis of the consequences of the increase in the number of foreign players at Glasgow Rangers, Celtic, and Paris Saint-Germain, with reference to the theories of Bromberger, Mignon, Sonntag et al.

• Cambridge vs Oxford : le Varsity Match entre histoire et actualité, La Planète est Rugby (ed: Jean-Yves GUILLAIN; Patrick PORTE). Paris: Atlantica & Musée National du Sport, 2007. 2 vol: 389 & 393 p. ISBN: 978-2-7588-0052-1 January, 2007 This article in French retraces the story and the contemporary significance of the Varsity Match, contested annually in Rugby between the University of Cambridge and Oxford.

• Le Paris Saint Germain dans la presse quotidienne française : une relation tripartite ambiguë , Sport et presse écrite en France au XXe siècle (ed: Evelyne COMBEAU-MARI). Paris: Le Publieur (Bibliothèque Universitaire Francophone), 2007. 431p. ISBN: 978-2-350610108 July, 2007 This article in French details the attitude of the French press in their reports of Paris Saint-Germain.

• The impact of EU sports regulation on supporters., Professional Sport in the European Union: Regulation, Re-regulation and Representation (ed: Simon GARDINER, Richard PARRISH & Rob SIEKMANN). TMC Asser Press and Cambridge University Press, 2008 December, 2008 Sport&EU (the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union) This book chapter analyses the consequences of the main EU sports regulations on the supporters of football: the Bosman ruling of the European Court of Justice, and the regulations that might come out of the Commission White Paper on Sport.

• L'impact international des politiques sportives nationales et régionales’, Sports et Relations Internationales. Paris: Institut Français des Relations Internationales, 2008. December, 2008 This article in French assesses the links between national sports policies and international relations. It centres around the notion of the prestige gained by the country in taking part in, having good results at and even winning international competitions.

• Local politics, identity and football in Paris , Modern and Contemporary France February, 2008

• France: a case of UEFA-isation? (with Albrecht SONNTAG), The Europeanisation of Football (ed: Wyn GRANT, Arne NIEMANN & Borja GARCÌA). Manchester University Press. September, 2011 Sport&EU (the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union)

• Foreign Players and Football Supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester University Press December, 2011 ‘Mercenaries’, ‘cheats’, ‘destroying the soul of (English) football’, ‘destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters’: foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters’ reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters’ attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.

• Parallel Myths, Popular Maps: The Europe of Soccer (with Paul Dietschy & Albrecht Sonntag), Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn 2009 , pp. 125-144(20) September, 2009 Publisher: Berghahn Journals

• Les supporters de football et les réglementations européennes., Football, Europe et régulations (Guillaume Robin, éd). January, 2011

• Foreign players and football supporters: Teh Old Firm, Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Manchester University Press & MacMillan February, 2012 Foreign footballers have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters’ reactions to the increasing number of foreign players in the clubs they support. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters’ attachment to their club in the European Union. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic, Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies and Social Sciences.

• Football Supporters and Violence in the British and French Press, International Review on Sport and Violence September, 2009

• Sport Supporters as Stakeholders in the Arnaut Report and the White Paper on Sport, UACES conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom September, 2008

• 'A People’s Europe: European Football Clubs between Local and Transnational Loyalties', UACES conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh September, 2008

• 'Studying Football Supporters: The Relevance of Politics and European Studies' , University of Loughborough, Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, May, 2008

• The quest for and the construction of a European identity: the case of Association Football, 8th graduate conference of the CGES, University of Georgetown (Washington DC, USA), Washington February, 2008

• Identity and football support in Europe after 1995, Groupe de recherche ‘Sport, cultures et sociétés en Europe au XXe siècle’, Sciences-Po (Paris), Paris, France January, 2005

• A PhD on Football, McMenemy Seminars, University of Cambridge: Trinity Hall , Cambridge, United Kingdom February, 2005

• Europeanising the game: the impact of “Bosman” on the identity of football clubs’, UACES student forum, 6th Annual conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom May, 2005

• Marqueurs d’identité dans le football: une comparaison des cas de Paris et Glasgow’, Conférence sur ‘L’Attachement identitaire aux clubs sportifs, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Institut d’Études Européennes, April, 2005

• Local politics, identity and football in Paris, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nicosia, Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus April, 2008

• Comprendre le sport au Royaume Uni: fractionnement et hiérarchie, Groupe de recherche ‘Sport, cultures et sociétés en Europe au XXe siècle’, Sciences-Po (Paris), Paris, France May, 2006 Sciences Po

• Vectors of identification and markers of identity in contemporary European football, XIth Congress of CESH (European Committee for Sport History), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria September, 2006

• Local politics and football in Paris, 57th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom April, 2007

• Paris Saint-Germain: the club of the capital or a local club?, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France conference, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom September, 2007

• Le PSG et la presse française, , REDESP, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Paris, France January, 2008

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