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The University’s Department of Anthropological Sciences is pleased to announce an upcoming public talk to be given by Dr Gary Armstrong, Senior Fellow at City, University of London.

This talk focuses on a 100-year epoch in the near-140-year history of Sheffield United Football Club (nicknamed ‘the Blades’). Founded in 1889 in the city where the game of Association Football (‘football’) began, and which hosts the1857 founded Sheffield FC, making it the world’s oldest football club.

Since its 1889 beginnings and an ensuing successful first 35 years, Sheffield United FC (SUFC) has been unable to win a major domestic trophy over the past 100 years and concomitantly has never qualified to compete for one of the three trophies available in UEFA regulated European competitions. In that same time 43 English clubs have won one of the three trophies and more have played in the European competitions.

Nevertheless, the Blades have sustained a loyal fan base of some 30,000 who attend home games mostly drawn from a city population of 540,000 and a regional conurbation of around 1.5 million, who hope that their team might, in their lifetime, lift a trophy.

The event will be followed by a ‘Meet and Greet’ for all anthropology students.

For more information, kindly contact Ms Francesca Xuereb Saliba via email.

Speaker’s Bio

Dr Gary Armstrong has taught Criminology at City, University of London since 2018. He previously lectured in the Sociology of Sport at Brunel University and before that in Criminology at the University of Westminster and later the University of Reading. Employed originally in criminological research projects, amongst the many criminology projects he has been involved in, two of the best-known publications are Images of Control: The Rise of the Maximum Surveillance Society (co-authored with Clive Norris) and Surveillance, CCTV and Social Control (co-edited with Clive Norris and Jade Moran).

His research into sports-related matters has produced a plethora of publications.