CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Introduction
6. Part I: Focus
   1. Chapter 1 Having Your Mind Right
   2. Chapter 2 In the Blink of an Eye
   3. Chapter 3 Choking and the Yips
7. Part II: Rules
   1. Chapter 4 Professional Fouls and Political Obligation
   2. Chapter 5 Morality, Convention, and Soccer Fakery
   3. Chapter 6 Cads of the Most Unscrupulous Kidney
8. Part III: Teams
   1. Chapter 7 The Logic of Fandom
   2. Chapter 8 Sporting Teams, Spacetime Worms, and Israeli Soccer
   3. Chapter 9 Mutualism and the Art of Road Cycle Racing
   4. Chapter 10 Game Theory and Team Reasoning
9. Part IV: Tribes
   1. Chapter 11 Civil Society and Sporting Eligibility
   2. Chapter 12 Sporting Nations and Political Geography
   3. Chapter 13 Race, Ethnicity, and Joining the Club
   4. Chapter 14 Nature, Nurture, and Sporting Families
10. Part V: Values
    1. Chapter 15 Amateur Values and Ulterior Motives
    2. Chapter 16 The Coase Theorem and Sporting Capitalism
    3. Chapter 17 History, Tradition, and the Meaning of Football
    4. Chapter 18 Shankly, Chomsky, and the Nature of Sport
11. Soporific Postscript
12. Acknowledgments
13. About the Author
14. Notes and Further Reading
15. Index