Professional football in context

In industrialized societies most people spend their adult lives at work and that commitment to work can be a central feature of a person’s life ( Grint 2005 ). There may be an intricate relationship between work and self such that the work in which people engage comes to be closely bound up with their conception of self – that is, who they have been, who they are and who they would like to be. Research on work ( Grint 2005 ; Watson 1995 ) has revealed the profound influence of distinctive occupational cultures in terms of how people perceive, define and evaluate themselves and interact with their peers. As such, waged work can be a principal source of an individual’s self-confidence and self-fulfilment ( Bain 2005 ). As Thomas (1999 : v) notes, work is a virtually inescapable part of the human condition. Many of us spend most of our working hours engaged in it. It absorbs our energies and preoccupies our thoughts. It involves us in close relations with other people and gives us our sense of identity.

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